Abraham Lincoln letter to Mrs. Bixby [manuscript] 1864 Nov. 21.

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Abraham Lincoln letter to Mrs. Bixby [manuscript] 1864 Nov. 21.

Facsimile of the famous Lincoln letter to Mrs. Bixby regarding the death of her five sons in the Civil War.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...