 Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.  Letters and telegrams - Seite 53von Abraham Lincoln - 1907Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Michael Vincent O'Shea, Florence Holbrook, William Adelbert Cook - 1917 - 136 Seiten
...SPELLER Write from dictation: Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. To Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass. Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on... | |
 | Orton H. Carmichael - 1917 - 168 Seiten
...question as to the origin in Lincoln's mind of the famous sentence with which he closes his Address. ^v. "I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on... | |
 | Orton H. Carmichael - 1917 - 172 Seiten
...origin al^Lircoln's mind of the famous sentence with which he closes his Address. • • • '/• "I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on... | |
 | 1917 - 834 Seiten
...beautiful letter also, and listen to the musical flow of its lines : Dear Madam: November 21, 1864-. I have been shown, in the files of the War Department, a statement from the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford, Margaret Judson - 1917 - 662 Seiten
...convey your sympathy. The following letter written by Lincoln suggests one way of expressing sympathy. Executive Mansion, Washington, November 21, 1864. Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Massachusetts. Dear Madam : — riously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1918 - 956 Seiten
...sons to battle and to death, this short letter: "Executive Mansion, "Washington, November 21, 1864. 'Dear Madam: I have been shown, in the files of the War Department, a statement of the adjutant general of Massachusetts, I hat you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on... | |
 | Percy Frazer Smith - 1918 - 352 Seiten
...letter, has now joined the street beggars in Delmenhors-Oldenburg, to get a living." Lincoln's Letter. "Dear Madam : — I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on... | |
 | 1918 - 384 Seiten
...recognition is pleased to send you his photograph, with frame and autograph signature." LINCOLN'S LETTER "Dear Madam — I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on... | |
 | Luther Emerson Robinson - 1918 - 376 Seiten
...thought, feeling, and phrasing as, perhaps, may be found in the epistolary literature of any language. DEAR MADAM : I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on... | |
 | Edwin Gordon Lawrence - 1918 - 204 Seiten
...forcefully illustrated in his letter to Mrs. Bixby, which is here given in full: November 21, 1864. DEAE MADAM: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five sons who died gloriously on the... | |
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