 | 1885 - 108 páginas
...commissioners be appointed to settle terms of capitulation, and received in response the memorable message: "No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." General Buckner considered these terms " ungenerous and. unchivalrous," but was compelled... | |
 | Emma Elizabeth Brown - 1885 - 408 páginas
...message came, and the white flag was hoisted on Fort Donelson. His reply was short and to the point: — "No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Buckner's answer was as follows : — "The disposition of forces under my command,... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - 1885 - 644 páginas
...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. " I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, "U. 8. GRANT, Brig.-Gen." The... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 752 páginas
...friend of the Union cause, and which has ever been associated with his name. " No terms other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." This bristling answer brought a hasty reply : " The disposition of forces under my... | |
 | Loomis T. Palmer - 1885 - 740 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 worhs. I am, sir, very respectfully your obedient servant, US GRANT, Brig.-Gen. USA, Commanding.... | |
 | Ulysses Simpson Grant - 1885 - 614 páginas
...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. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your ob't se'v't, US GRANT, To this I received the following... | |
 | L. T. Remlap - 1885 - 374 páginas
...appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms other tl an an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your -marks. I am, sir, very respectfully your obedient servant, US GRANT, Brig.-Gen. USA, Commanding.... | |
 | L. T. Remlap - 1885 - 800 páginas
...Buckner's request for a commission to arrange terms of capitulation, he wrote : " No terms other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your worhs.'" Obstinacy and modesty are not often combined in the same character. With obstinacy... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1885 - 936 páginas
...friend of the Union cause, and which has ever been associated with his name. " No terms other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." This bristling answer brought a hasty reply : " The disposition of forces under my... | |
 | 1886 - 836 páginas
...until noon and the appointment of commissioners to arrange for a capitulation. Grant's answer was: " No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender...accepted ; I propose to move immediately on your works. ' ' Although Buckner characterized these terms as ungenerous and unchivalrous, he immediately surrenderee!... | |
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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. 
