After reading to his staff Abraham Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby, Marshall orders that Ryan be found and sent home immediately.

The inscription below the statue, taken from Abraham Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby, reads:

In 1864, Andrew wrote a letter to his close friend and distant cousin President Abraham Lincoln describing a woman named Lydia Bixby who lost five sons in battle and asking Lincoln to express his condolences.

Lincoln's letter to Mrs. Bixby was printed by the Boston Evening Transcript on November 25, 1864, the same day it was delivered to her by the Adjutant General of Massachusetts, William Schouler.

Mrs. Bixby continues to be a mysterious figure in the story about the letter.

Mrs. Bixby is said to have destroyed the letter shortly after receiving it, which would be consistent with her alleged Copperhead sympathies.

Hamilton examined the facsimile of the Bixby letter and concluded that it was copied from a poorly executed forgery, citing elements of its construction incorrect for Lincoln's era as well as apparent pencil markings that were traced in pen.

When the Lincoln scholar F. Lauriston Bullard investigated this claim in 1925, he instead found that the college had never heard of the Bixby letter and did not even have a copy, let alone the original.

For many years scholars have engaged in on-going debate regarding whether the Bixby letter was written by Lincoln himself or by his assistant private secretary, John Hay.

Another factor involves Lincoln's letter writing habits, especially in November 1864 when the Bixby letter was composed.

Others have countered that Hay wrote pieces that compare favorably to the Bixby letter, and specifically highlight words and phrases in the letter that appear more frequently in the writings of the secretary.

The most poignant example may be the word beguile, which appears 30 times in the works of Hay and, excepting the Bixby letter, not once in the collected works of Lincoln.

In the film, General George Marshall ( played by Harve Presnell ) reads the Bixby letter to his officers before giving the order to find that brother, Private Ryan, and send him home.

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* The Bixby letter, written by Abraham Lincoln to the mother of five soldiers who all died in the American Civil War

Proteus is the name of the submarine in the original story by Otto Klement and Jay Lewis Bixby, which became the basis for the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage and Issac Asimov's novelization.

The show is noteworthy in that Bixby insisted on doing all of the magic himself, without any trick photography, although it was not possible for this to be the case in the TV-movie / pilot.

Viburnum is located at ( 37. 714668 ,-91. 127914 ) it is four miles North of Bixby and 20 Miles West of Belgrade.

Bixby is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Cameron County, Texas, United States.

Bixby is located at ( 26. 143269 ,-97. 857239 ).

Bixby is served by the La Feria Independent School District.

It is based on the 1953 short story It's a Good Life by Jerome Bixby and is considered by many, such asTime Magazine and TV Guide, to be one of the best episodes of the series.

The bottom is made of Surlyn or Bixby.

Death Cab for Cutie's song " Bixby Canyon Bridge " is about a bridge ( Bixby Creek Bridge ) near the cabin in which Jack Kerouac stayed.

Bixby Creek Bridge, shown here looking southwest, is a popular attraction in Big Sur

Leaders of superteams spend as much time anticipating the future as they do managing the present by thinking forward to, and talking to others about their goal, for it is this that provides the team with its purpose and direction ( Hastings, Bixby, and Chaudhry-Lawton, 1986 ).

In 2007, Jerome Bixby's The Man From Earth ( as it is now called ) was turned into an independent motion picture executive produced by his son Emerson Bixby, directed by Richard Schenkman and starring David Lee Smith, William Katt, Richard Riehle, Tony Todd, Annika Peterson, Alexis Thorpe, Ellen Crawford and John Billingsley.

Allen was born in Lowell, Massachusetts to Otis and Louisa ( Bixby ) Allen and died at his Rolfe Street home " The Terraces " in Lowell and is buried in Lowell Cemetery.

It tells the story of a widower, Tom Corbett ( played by Bill Bixby ), who is a magazine publisher, and his son, Eddie ( played by Brandon Cruz ), who believes his father should marry, and manipulates situations surrounding the women his father is interested in.

Brandon Edwin Cruz ( born May 28, 1962 ) is an American actor best known for his role as Eddie Corbett, son of widower Tom Corbett ( played by Bill Bixby ) on the comedy-drama The Courtship of Eddie's Father.

His son's middle name, Bixby, is in honor of Cruz's co-star and friend.

( Bixby wrote four episodes for ST: TOS, but is not credited for " Charlie X.

Fantastic Voyage is a 1966 science fiction film written by Harry Kleiner, based on a story by Otto Klement and Jerome Bixby.

It is episode # 51, production # 50, with screenplay by D. C. Fontana and Jerome Bixby based on Bixby's story, and directed by Marc Daniels.

David Bruce Banner, M. D., Ph. D. ( Bill Bixby ), is a physician and scientist employed at the fictitious " Culver Institute "— presumably headed by Dr. Benjamin Culver ( Charles Siebert )— who is traumatized by the car accident that killed his beloved wife Laura.

Lincoln then sent the famous Letter to Mrs. Bixby to Bixby, who turned out to not only dislike Lincoln, but was also a Confederate sympathizer.

Bixby also hosted Once Upon A Classic on PBS from 1976 to 1980.

The individual history of Los Alamitos separate from the rancho begins with the purchase by John Bixby of the Rancho Los Alamitos.

On December 8, 2003, in a 14-hour standoff that stemmed from a land-survey dispute, two Abbeville lawmen were killed by West Abbeville resident Steven Bixby.

The Irvine Company grew from the premise of a ranch founded by James Irvine I, Benjamin and Thomas Flint, and Llewellyn Bixby in 1864 from three adjoining Mexican land grants.

" The solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom " – quotation from Letter to Mrs. Bixby

By 1882 ownership of the land had passed from the Sepulveda through various mortgage holders to Jotham Bixby of Rancho Los Cerritos, who leased the land to Japanese farmers.

The show centered on Tom Corbett ( Bill Bixby ), a handsome, thirty-something magazine publisher and widower from Los Angeles who had shouldered the responsibility of raising his freckled-faced, six-year-old son, Eddie ( Brandon Cruz ), who often cleverly manipulated his father about getting a new wife, shortly after the death of Eddie's mother and Tom's wife, Helen.

From here he heads out to California's State Route 1 and then crosses over the Bixby Creek Bridge, made famous from the opening credits in every episode.

* Jaydee Bixby, the runner up from the show Canadian Idol, attended Hunting Hills High School before auditioning for the show.

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* Bubba Bixby, a character from the 2007 television film, Shredderman Rules, a film based on the books

The brief, consoling message was written in November 1864 to Lydia Bixby, a widow living in Boston, following a request from Massachusetts Governor John Albion Andrew.

Lydia ( Parker ) Bixby, by some reports, had moved to Boston from Richmond, Virginia, yet continued sympathizing with the South as a Copperhead.

Bixby Creek takes its name from Charles Henry Bixby, from Livingston County, New York, who arrived on the Monterey Peninsula in 1868.

Sharpe built a dirt road from the lodge up the canyon to Bixby Landing and another road down to the beach at the mouth of Bixby Creek.

After serving with the engineer battalion at Willets Point and as Assistant Professor of Engineering at the Military Academy, Bixby graduated with honors from the French Ecole des ponts et chaussées.

Bixby headed the Wilmington, North Carolina District from 1884 to 1891.