A new analysis sheds light on the famous "Bixby letter" from President Lincoln to a woman who was believed to have lost five sons during the Civil War. You can read about it here: http://www.newsweek.com/abraham-lincoln-bixby-letter-john-hay-jk-rowling-639788 We asked ALPLM historian James Cornelius for his thoughts. | Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library & Museum

"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." | The Lincoln Project