Where is the bixby letter?

Answer 1

Mrs. Bixby was a http://www.answers.com/topic/confederate-states-of-america sympathizer, and destroyed the letter shortly after receiving it. It was also later discovered that only two of her five sons, Charles and Oliver Bixby, had died in battle. Of the other sons, one deserted, one was discharged honorably and the third either deserted or died as a POW, according to Abraham Lincoln Online.