Famous Lincoln Letter Unearthed?
November 18th 2008 16:36
A Texas museum hopes a document found in its archives turns out to be an authentic government copy of Abraham Lincoln’s eloquent letter consoling a mother thouth to have lost foiv sons in the Civil War.The letter written 144 years ago.
The full text of President Abraham Lincoln’s letter to Civil war mother Lydia Bixby, who was thought to have five sons in Battle:
Historians say Lincoln wrote the letter at the reqauest of a Massachusetts official,who passed along news of a Boston woman grieving the loss of her five sons.
Executive Mansion,Washington, Nov.21,1864.
To Mrs.Bixby,Boston, Mass.
Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department of a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five(5) sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely
And respectfully,
A Lincoln.
(image is from cbsnews.com)
The full text of President Abraham Lincoln’s letter to Civil war mother Lydia Bixby, who was thought to have five sons in Battle:
Historians say Lincoln wrote the letter at the reqauest of a Massachusetts official,who passed along news of a Boston woman grieving the loss of her five sons.
Executive Mansion,Washington, Nov.21,1864.
To Mrs.Bixby,Boston, Mass.
I have been shown in the files of the War Department of a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five(5) sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle.
I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely
And respectfully,
A Lincoln.
(image is from cbsnews.com)
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