Here is Lincoln’s BIXBY Letter! Below is Abraham Lincoln’s Lydia Bixby Letter believed found today. Lincoln’s Bixby letter to a woman who lost her five sons in the Civil War is being analyzed by the Dallas Historical Society today.

This is a copy. The original is still lost. Questions remain still whether it was really written by Lincoln in the first place. It’s over 144 years old, if valid, and is considered as one of the most acclaimed words of prose ever written by a president.

Here is the Text of the Bixby Letter

Executive Mansion, Washington, Nov 21, 1864
To Mrs. Bixby, Boston, Mass.

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 (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