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  • A Letter To Mrs. Bixley, of Boston. November 21, 1864

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    Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter of condolence to Mrs. Bixley, who had lost five sons in battle during the Civil War. Lincoln acknowledged that there were no words that could lessen her grief over such an overwhelming loss. However, he offered what small consolation could be found in knowing that her sons had died helping to save the Republic, and prayed that she might find comfort in cherished memories of them and the pride of their sacrifice for freedom.

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    Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter of condolence to Mrs. Bixley, who had lost five sons in battle during the Civil War. Lincoln acknowledged that there were no words that could lessen her grief over such an overwhelming loss. However, he offered what small consolation could be found in knowing that her sons had died helping to save the Republic, and prayed that she might find comfort in cherished memories of them and the pride of their sacrifice for freedom.

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    A Letter To Mrs. Bixley, of Boston. November 21, 1864

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    Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter of condolence to Mrs. Bixley, who had lost five sons in battle during the Civil War. Lincoln acknowledged that there were no words that could lessen her grief over such an overwhelming loss. However, he offered what small consolation could be found in knowing that her sons had died helping to save the Republic, and prayed that she might find comfort in cherished memories of them and the pride of their sacrifice for freedom.

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    A Letter to Mrs. Bixley, of Boston.

    November 21, 1864

    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
    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 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,


    ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

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