 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...  Theodore Roosevelt: The Man as I Knew Him - Page 30by Ferdinand Cowle Iglehart - 1919 - 420 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1900 - 484 pages
...Boston: "Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov. 21st, 1864. "Dear Madam— "I have been shown in the fiies of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - 1865 - 866 pages
...— EIICUTJVI MAJCSIUX, WABUIKOTOI, Nottmbtr 21, ISM. DEAR MADAM : — I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General...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... | |
 | George Washington Colman - 1865 - 20 pages
...was received by Mrs. Bixby, a poor widow in Boston: "Dear Madam, — I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 848 pages
...MAKUOH, WABHIKOTOX, .\ ••!•''•:• 21, 1 - M. DEAR MADAM: — I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General...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... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 972 pages
...MADAM — I have been shown, ic *he files of the War Department, a statement of the Adjutant-ueneral of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five...battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine, which should attempt to bcguilu you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1865 - 878 pages
...MADAM — I have been shown, ic the files of the War Department, a statement of the Adjutant-ueneral of Massachusetts, that you are the mother of five...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... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1865 - 886 pages
...shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General of Massachusetts, that yon are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously...field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must bo any words of mine which-should attempt to beguile you^rom the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 572 pages
...Jfqftter: "EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864. "Dear Madam: — I have been shown, in the files of the War Department, a statement of the Adjutant-general...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... | |
 | John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow - 1866 - 264 pages
...hospital, seriously wounded, may here be inserted : — " Dear Madam, — I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant-General...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 BO overwhelming. But I cannot... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland - 1866 - 556 pages
...tetter: " EXECUTIVE MANSION, Washington, Nov. 21, 1864, "Dear Madam: — I have been shown, in the files of the War Department, a statement of the Adjutant-general...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 3 cannot... | |
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