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On for the time being in historical past, November 21, 1864, Abraham Lincoln ‘pens’ letter to Mrs. Bixby

President Lincoln supposedly sent his sincerest condolences to a grieving mother in the historic Bixby Letter on this day in history, Nov. 21, 1864. In the fall of 1864, Gov. John A. Andrew of Massachusetts sent a request to then-President Lincoln asking him 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…