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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 of mine
Which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming
But I cannot refrain from tendering to 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
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