 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 256 pages
...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...you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic... | |
 | 1906 - 828 pages
...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...beguile you from the grief of a loss so over-whelming. Pint I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the... | |
 | Henry Watterson - 1906 - 536 pages
...Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the AdjutantGeneral of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in... | |
 | 1906 - 434 pages
...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...of mine which .should attempt to beguile you from a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1905 - 354 pages
...already hovering over him. "I have been shown," he says, "in the files of the War Department a statement that you are the mother of five sons who have died...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from your grief for a loss so overwhelming — but I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation... | |
 | 1906 - 762 pages
...sons to her country: " I have been shown," he says, " in the files of the war department a statement that you are the mother of five sons who have died...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from your grief for a loss so overwhelming, but I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation which... | |
 | 1903 - 626 pages
...: "I have been shown," he says, "in the file of the War Department a state156 Abraham Lincoln. ment that you are the mother of five sons who have died...words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from your grief for a loss so overwhelming, but I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation which... | |
 | 1906 - 786 pages
...sons to her country : " I have been shown," he says, " in the files of the war department a statement that you are the mother of five sons who have died...and fruitless must be any words of mine which should 8 ttempt to beguile you from your grief for a loss so overwhelming, but I cannot refrain from tendering... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 476 pages
...TO MRS. BIXBY. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, November 21, 1864. MRS. BIXBY, Boston, Massachusetts. words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic... | |
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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. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words... 
