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 ...

President Lincoln supposedly sent his sincerest condolences to a grieving mother in the historic Bixby Letter on this day ... him to send his regards to Mrs. Lydia Bixby. Bixby of Boston was ...

Historians have argued for years about the famed 1864 "Bixby letter" that was sent to Lydia Bixby, a mother in Boston grieving the loss of her five sons in the war. The beautifully-written letter ...

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 ...

One of the most famous letters ever written in English is called ... asking him to send a note of condolence to Boston mother Lydia Bixby, whose five sons were reportedly killed during the Civil ...

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 ...

The issue of presidential condolences has come to the forefront in the past week as President Donald Trump incorrectly claimed that his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, failed to ...

The issue of presidential condolences has come to the forefront in the past week as President Donald Trump incorrectly claimed that his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, failed to ...

Historians debate whether Lincoln wrote it. Its recipient, Lydia Bixby, was no fan of the president. And not all her sons died in the war. The letter, written with “the best of intentions” 144 ...