| Edward Deering Mansfield - 1868 - 386 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. " I am sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, thousand small arms, and the... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 606 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." Buckuer's reply was in a very disgusted tone, and it may be excused to him under... | |
| John Townsend Trowbridge - 1868 - 792 páginas
...pending negotiations for surrender. To this Grant sent his brief but famous reply : " No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works" Finding parley useless, the rebel General was obliged to surrender, which he did rather... | |
| Whitelaw Reid - 1868 - 1134 páginas
...Grant's reply struck the key-note of popular feeling, and has become historic: "No terms, other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Buckner had been at West Point with Grant. He was there a showy, chivalrous Kentuckian.... | |
| Jesse Truesdell Peck - 1868 - 774 páginas
...Buckner sent a flag of truce to Grant to know his terms, and received for answer, " No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Forgetting the soldier in his mortification, Buckner characterized the terms as "... | |
| Edward Howland - 1868 - 670 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. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, US GRANT, Brigadier General USA,... | |
| Albert Deane Richardson - 1868 - 664 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, "US GRANT, Brig.-Gen." The... | |
| John Townsend Trowbridge - 1868 - 774 páginas
...pending negotiations for surrender. To this Grant sent his brief but famous reply : " No other terms than .unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works" Finding parley useless, the rebel General was obliged to surrender, which he did rather... | |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1868 - 652 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... | |
| John Townsend Trowbridge - 1868 - 796 páginas
...pending negotiations for surrender. To this Grant sent his brief but famous reply : " No other terms than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Finding parley useless, the rebel General was obliged to surrender, which he did... | |
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