The Bixby Letter

[Steve]

I really wish that some researcher had gone to Mrs. Towers and gotten more information on what her mother said about her grandmother. As the article's written, despite it's title, Towers' quotes are a little ambiguous as to whether her mother actually said Bixby had made statements supporting the Confederate cause or if that was her daughter-in-law's opinion of her, especially following her indignant response to receiving the letter. Either way, Towers' mother probably told her more information about the family that would better illluminate what happened.

As to Towers' theory of Bixby being indignant over the wrong numbers of sons being killed in the letter; I can definitely see the point about son Henry whom she learned was still alive about a month prior to receiving the letter. But as far as I can tell it apparently was Bixby herself who falsely told Schouler that son Edward had died.