 | Edwards Pierrepont - 1867 - 130 pages
...of a loss so overwhelming". But I cannot refrain from tendering to you the consolation that may Ijp found in the thanks of the republic they died to save....freedom. "Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, "A. LINCOLN." This, gentlemen, as I have already said, is a trial of one of those conspirators. It... | |
 | Edwards Pierrepont - 1867 - 130 pages
...of the republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your e bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory...freedom. " Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, "A. LINCOLN." This, gentlemen, as I have already said, is a trial of one of those conspirators. It... | |
 | Richard Miller] [Devens - 1867 - 706 pages
...assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and the lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have...upon the altar of freedom Yours, very sincerely and respectful"Mrs. Bixby." ' A. LINCOLN. Home and the Battlefield. In a ramble over the field of battle... | |
 | John Harrison Surratt - 1867 - 850 pages
...may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved aud lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have...upon the altar of freedom. "Yours, very sincerely aud respectfully, ф "A.LINCOLN" This, gentlemen, as I have already said, is a trial of one of those... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1869 - 116 pages
...of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I can not refrain from tendering to you the consolation, that...sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. " Yours very respectfully, "ABRAHAM LINCOLN. "To Mrs. BIXBY, Boston, Massachusetts." One summer's day, in walking... | |
 | Edward Parmelee Smith - 1869 - 602 pages
...died to save. I pray that Our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and...of Freedom. Yours, very sincerely and respectfully, A. LINCOLN. To Mrs. BIXBY, Boston, Mass. To receive such a letter, written by him who was within a... | |
 | Richard Miller Devens - 1873 - 742 pages
...assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and the lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have...upon the altar of freedom Yours, very sincerely and respectfulA. LINCOLN." "Mrs. Bixby." Home and the Battlefield. In a ramble over the field of battle... | |
 | 1921 - 496 pages
...mingled. Both nations share, in the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln, in the solemn pride that is theirs to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. These young lives, so boldly offered, and so bravely surrendered, are at once a token and a pledge.... | |
 | American Bar Association - 1921 - 1066 pages
...mingled. Both nations share, in the immortal words of Abraham Lincoln, in solemn pride that is theirs to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom. These young lives, so boldly offered, and so bravely surrendered, are at once a token and a pledge.... | |
 | William M. Thayer - 1882 - 430 pages
...down and wrote the following letter to her : — "EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, Nov. zist, 1864. " DEAR MADAM, — I have been shown, in the files of...very sincerely and respectfully, "ABRAHAM LINCOLN, "To Mrs. BIXBY, Boston, Massachusetts." His deep interest in the Union army caused him to hail every... | |
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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... 
