Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works. The Quarterly Review - Página 209editado por - 1880Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Benson John Lossing - 1877 - 764 páginas
...upon terms of surrender. Grant CHAP. XIV. ARMY POSTAI^SERVICE. 1557 replied : " No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." This answer was followed by the speedy surrender of the fort, and of thirteen thousand five hundred... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1878 - 722 páginas
...appointment of commissioners to agree upon terms of surrender. Grant replied : " No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." This answer was followed by the speedy surrender of the fort, and of thirteen thousand five hundred... | |
| William Preston Johnston - 1878 - 806 páginas
...JlEADQCABTEHS, AKMT IN TBS FtH-D, I FOBT DOXELSOX, February 16, 1S62. ) SIR: Tours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of commissioners to settle...terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your... | |
| William Preston Johnston - 1878 - 806 páginas
...IlEAI>0.rAHTEE9, ARMY IS TIIE FlELD, I FOBT DOXELSO.V, February 16, 1SG2. f SIE: Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. Ko terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately... | |
| International portrait gallery - 1878 - 462 páginas
...general prepared to give ? " asked the leader of the Confederates. " No terms," replied Grant, " except unconditional and immediate surrender, can be accepted ; I propose to move immediately on your works." General Grant, as everybody knows, is neither a speaker nor a writer ; he is the last... | |
| Julian K. Larke - 1879 - 538 páginas
...ARMY IN THE FIELD, CAMP NEAR DONELSON, Feb. 16, 1862. To General SB BTJCKNER, Confederate Army : Youra of this date, proposing an armistice and appointment...unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. J propose to move immediately upon your works. I am, sir, very respectfully your obedient servant,... | |
| James Baird McClure - 1879 - 260 páginas
...until twelve o'clock to-day." To which General Grant replied: " SIR : Yours of this date proposing armistice and appointment of commissioners to settle...terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your... | |
| J. T. Headley - 1879 - 864 páginas
...thousand of his brave soldiers had been stretched upon the frozen field, and he replied: "No terms but unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Buckner saw that postponement or arrangements of any kind to lessen his mortification was out of the... | |
| Charles Godfrey Leland - 1879 - 260 páginas
...an armistice, in which to settle terms of surrender. To this General Grant replied, "No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works." General Buckner, with 15,000 men, at once yielded. From this note, General US Grant... | |
| Charles Godfrey Leland - 1879 - 264 páginas
...armistice, in which to settle terms of surrender. To this General Grant replied, " No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works." General Buckner, with 15,000 men, at once yielded. From this note, General US Grant... | |
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