 | Everett Chamberlin - 1872 - 586 páginas
...appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received, ffa terms other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted...."works. " I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, - U. S GRANT. " Brigadier-General, USA, Command1ng." And soon the final answer came from Buckner... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - 1872 - 890 páginas
...appointment of commissioners to agree upon terms of capitulation. Grant's reply was a memorable one : " No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works." Buckner, in a letter expressing his deep chagrin, accepted the terms and surrendered.... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - 1872 - 568 páginas
...appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your "works. HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY IN THE FIELD, 14 CAMP NEAR DONELSON, February i6th, 1862. " To GENERAL SB BUCKNER,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1872 - 690 páginas
...appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works " Buckner's reply was in a very disgusted tone, and it may be excused to him under the circumstances,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1880 - 664 páginas
...with no right to ask any terms excepting such as humanity required, so he said, " No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Grant's reply irritated the helpless Buckner, and, with folly equal to his chagrin, he answered, "... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1874 - 872 páginas
...capitulation, and asked for an armistice until noon for that purpose. Grant replied : " No terms other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Buckner responded: "The overwhelming force under your command compels me, notwithstanding the splendid... | |
 | Abby Sage Richardson - 1875 - 622 páginas
...to surrender. He sent out to Grant to know what terms he would accept. " No terms but unconditional surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works," answered the general, who wrote this dispatch in his tent sitting on an empty crackerbox. Buckner made... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1876 - 358 páginas
...proposing nn armistice to agree upon terms of surrender, to which Grant replied, *'No terms other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Which rcnlv has given to US Grant the popular sobriquet, Unconditional Surrender Grant. I See p. 309,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Preston Johnston - 1878 - 806 páginas
...proposing armistice and appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender...works. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, TJ. 8. GRANT, Urigadier- General commanding. General 3. B. BFCXSEB, Confederate Army. GENERAL... | |
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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. 
