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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. "
The History of Abraham Lincoln, and the Overthrow of Slavery - Página 309
por Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 720 páginas
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Home Culture: A Self-instructor and Aid to Social Hours at Home, Comprising ...

Thomas Hunter - 1884 - 670 páginas
...from the earth. 51. I'll fight it out on this plan if it takes all summer. 52. No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works. 53. Let no guilty man escape. 54. If any one attempts to haul down the American flag,...
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Queer Questions and Ready Replies: A Collection of Four Hundred Questions in ...

Samuel Grant Oliphant - 1887 - 212 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 GEANT, Brig. Gen. Gen. Buckner...
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Personal Memoirs

Ulysses S. Grant - 1999 - 708 páginas
...Simon B. Buckner's request to negotiate terms for the surrender of Fort Donelson: "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works." Not an excess word here; the three adjectives and single adverb strengthen and clarify the message;...
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Major General John Alexander McClernand: Politician in Uniform

Richard L. Kiper - 1999 - 420 páginas
...to-day." Grant's reply left no doubt as to his view of terms and an armistice: "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Grant had notified McClernand, Wallace, and Smith to be prepared to renew the assault....
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A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861-1865

Russell Frank Weigley - 2000 - 662 páginas
...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 works."24 Buckner had no choice but to accept. The Federals had suffered 2,832 casualties...
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Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

Andre Bernard, Clifton Fadiman - 2000 - 808 páginas
...commander of the besieging Northern forces, suggesting an armistice. Grant replied, "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." This message became famous and won Grant the nickname of "Unconditional Surrender...
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Millard Fillmore

Robert J. Scarry - 2001 - 440 páginas
...February 10. Although putting up a stubborn resistance they asked for terms. Grant's famous reply was, "No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works."3' Thereafter, "Unconditional Surrender" became his nickname. Both Forts Henry and...
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Lincoln's Rail-splitter: Governor Richard J. Oglesby

Mark A. Plummer - 2001 - 278 páginas
...to Buckner. When Buckner, Grant's old army friend, asked for terms, he was shocked at the response: "No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." There was no choice but to accept. Nathan Forrest refused, however, and led his cavalry...
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The American Civil War: The War in the West 1861-July 1863

Stephen Douglas Engle - 2001 - 104 páginas
...General Buckner, a prewar friend of Grant's. When Buckner requested terms of surrender on 16 February, Grant replied, 'No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted.' The words that forever immortalized him as 'Unconditional Surrender' Grant gave the Union its first...
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The Most Glorious Fourth: Vicksburg and Gettysburg, July 4, 1863

Duane P. Schultz - 2002 - 486 páginas
...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. Buckner surrendered. Church bells rang in every city and hamlet in the Union. People...
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