saving private ryan...speech?

Question

what was the speech in the letter from abraham lincoln? please send me a link or tell me what it said?

Answer 1

General George C. Marshall was reading the famous Mrs. Bixby letter, written by President Lincoln as a result of her 5 sons being killed. In fact, only 2 were. Mrs. Bixby, a Confederate sympathizer was attempting to get money from the U.S. Government. All this aside, it is still hailed as one of the most poignant letters in history, even though it is still debated whether Lincoln actually wrote it or if it was simply signed by him. It reads as follows:

Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.

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 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

Answer 2

In the film, the decision to order the safe return of Private Ryan is inspired in part by the General’s reading of the Letter to Mrs. Bixby, written by Abraham Lincoln to console the mother of five sons then believed to have been killed in the American Civil War, thus tying the film back to Rodat's Civil War inspiration.



click the link..it xplains it

Answer 3

Same letter different link