President Lincoln supposedly ... to send his regards to Mrs. Lydia Bixby. Bixby of Boston was believed to have lost her five sons during the Civil War, according to Abraham Lincoln Online.

The full text of President Abraham Lincoln’s letter to Civil War mother Lydia Bixby, who was thought to have lost five sons in battle: Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov 21, 1864. To Mrs. Bixby ...

In November of 1864, a woman named Lydia Bixby received a letter from President Abraham Lincoln. He had been told that she had lost five sons to the then-ongoing Civil War. A Massachusetts state ...

In November 1864, a woman named Lydia Bixby received a letter purportedly written by President Abraham Lincoln telling her that her sons had died in the Civil War. But the correspondence ...

long believed to have been written by President Abraham Lincoln. Historians have argued for years about the famed 1864 "Bixby letter" that was sent to Lydia Bixby, a mother in Boston grieving the ...

The letter is addressed to “Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass ... written,” said James Cornelius, curator of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill.