I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereav…

Abraham Lincoln
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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. ✨ Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.
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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. ✨ Letter to Lydia Bixby, 21 Nov. 1864.

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