 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1894 - 694 páginas
...commissioners, to meet a like number to be named by yourself, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save...effusion of blood, which must otherwise be shed to a [rightful extent, feeling myself fully able to maintain my position for a yet indefinite period. This... | |
 | Edward Robins - 1905 - 364 páginas
...save the further effusion of blood, which might otherwise be shed to a frightful extent,—feeling myself fully able to maintain my position for a yet indefinite period." ' Grant was like Sherman, in that he always had a chivalrous respect for the courage of the South—unlike... | |
 | Indiana-Vicksburg Military Park Commission - 1911 - 490 páginas
...commissioners to meet a like number, to be named by yourself, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save...communication will be handed you under a flag of truce by Maj. Gen. JS Bowen. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, JC PEMRERTON. Lieutenant-General. (Inclosure... | |
 | Indiana-Vicksburg Military Park Commission - 1911 - 502 páginas
...commissioners to meet a like number, to be named by yourself, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save...feeling myself fully able to maintain my position for n yet lndefinite period. This communication will be handed you under a flag of truce by Maj. Gen. JS... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson - 1912 - 610 páginas
...three commissioners on each side to arrange terms of capitulation. The usual desire was expressed: "To save the further effusion of blood, which must otherwise be shed to a frightful extent," and this was backed up by the boastful claim that the garrison could "maintain its position for an... | |
 | James Harrison Wilson - 1912 - 624 páginas
...three commissioners on each side to arrange terms of capitulation. The usual desire was expressed: "To save the further effusion of blood, which must otherwise be shed to a frightful extent," and this was backed up by the boastful claim that the garrison could "maintain its position for an... | |
 | United States. War Department - 1972 - 896 páginas
...commissioners to meet a like number, to be named by yourself, at such place and honr to-day as yon may tiud convenient. I make this proposition to save the further...which must otherwise be shed to a frightful extent, fooling myself fully able to maintain my position for a yet indefinite period. This communication will... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - 1990 - 1228 páginas
...commissioners, to meet a like number to be named by yourself, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save...communication will be handed you under a flag of truce, by Major-General John S. Bowen." It was a glorious sight to officers and soldiers on the line where these... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1995 - 548 páginas
...commissioners, to meet a like number to be named by yourself, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save...indefinite period. This communication will be handed yon under a flag of truce, by Major-General John S. Bowen." It was a glorious sight to officers and... | |
 | A. A. Hoehling - 1996 - 406 páginas
...commissioners, to meet a like number to be named by yourself, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save...James Bowen. Very respectfully, your obedient servant. . . . Forty-seventh Day "Last evening at sunset the cannonading at Vicksburg was heard distinctly in... | |
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I have the honor to propose an armistice for hours, with the view to arranging terms for the capitulation of Vicksburg. To this end, if agreeable to you, I will appoint three commissioners, to meet a like number to be named by yourself, at such place... 
