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Bixby family’s Civil War fate explored in Lincoln letter saga
A Boston Herald study by Rev William Burton and De Witt J Mason reexamines the Bixby sons named by General Schouler as five Civil War casualties. It details Charles N Bixby Oliver Cromwell Bixby Henry Cromwell Bixby George Way Bixby and Edward Bixby, noting misidentifications, desertions, and a 1909 Chicago death. The piece argues only two of the five sons died in battle, with the rest alive or misrecorded, and recounts Lincoln's letter to Mrs Lydia Bixby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schouler
War Department
DE Witt J. Mason
Lincoln
Lydia Bixby
Loston
Disby
William 2. Burton
Boston Herald
Adjutant General of
Massachusetts
Ming
Gut T
Republic
A. Lincoln
Barton
Bixby
Joseph
Sarah
Ipswich
Rexford
Thomas
Alice
Wopkinton
Lois Fool
Polly
Cromwell Bixby
Toepkinton
Lydia
Andrew Find
Lydia Parker
Lydia Packer Bixby
Agnes Surriage
Charles Henry Frankland
Boston
Coael
Winnisimmet
Salem
North Shore
Marblelead
Agnes
Lady Frankland
William Schutter
Bchower
Andrew
Washington
Misssachusetts
Carles N. Bixby
Hopkinton
Ile Ensted
Tarrison Avenue
Edward
Camp Miaasesoit
Massachusetts Volunteers
Second Fredericksburg
Olver Cromwvell Bixby
Catherine Wing
Charles
Oliver C. Bixby
Brookline
Mass
Ile
Watie A. Wrandlett
Everett
William A
Readville
Waltham
Petersburg
Henry Cromwell Bisby
Newton
Gettysburg
Richmond
Belle Isle
Milford
Krs Bixby
John Bixby
Lydian
Andrew Parker Bixby
George Way Bixby
Bor
Stopkinton
New York City
Chelsea
Sonderville
New York
Salisbury
N. C
John T. Welsh
Fifty-sixth
George
George Way
Gardiner Tufts
Annapolis
Geo. W. Way
56Th Mass
N. Y
Geo. W. Bixby
Dover St. Trace
J. B. Davis
Gloucester
Jacobs
50Th Regiment
George W. Bixby
Adjutant General
Edward Bixby
Twenty-second Massachusetts
Wally Island
Arthur
Arthur I. Bixby
Camp Kalorama
Fourteenth
Massachusetts Infantry
Massachusetts Heavy Artilters
Arthur B. Bisby
Chicago
Peter M. Hofmann
Waldheim
Des Plaines
New England
West Madison Street