 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.  HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR - Page 270by JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER - 1868Full view - About this book
 | 1886
...General Buckner asked for terms, and Grant thus replied to the demand : ' 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 on your... | |
 | 1863
...appointment of commissioners to settle on the terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms, except unconditional and immediate surrender, can be accepted....I propose to move immediately on your works. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, US GRANT, Brigadier-General Commanding. The answer of Gen.... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 400 pages
...appointment of Commissioners to settle on the terms of capitulation, is jnst received. " No terms, except unconditional and immediate surrender, can be accepted....propose to move immediately on your works. " I am very respectfully, your obedient servant, " US GRANT, " Brigadier-General Commanding." " HEADQUARTERS,... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Illinois - 1862 - 106 pages
...ILLINOIS OFFICERS. the morning of the 16th, the rebel commander, Gen. Buckner, sent in a flag of truce, proposing an armistice, and appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, to which Gen. Grant replied that " no terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be... | |
 | Bibliography, National - 1863
...LARKE. Illustrated with accurate Portrait on Steel, and Views of the principal Battles. " No terras but unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works." GEANT то BITCKXEH. SYNOPSIS OF THE CONTENTS. Grant's Karl y Days— At West Poiiit— Enters tho... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863
...terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms, except unconditional and immediate surrender, con be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, US GRANT, Brigadier-General Commanding. The answer of Gen.... | |
 | Charles Wheeler Denison - Electronic book - 1864 - 308 pages
...ARMY IN THE FIELD, CAMP NEAR DONELSON, Feb. 16, 1862. To Gen. SB BUCKNER, Confederate Army: — Yours of this date, proposing an armistice, and appointment...capitulation, is • just received. No terms, other than an immediate and UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER, can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works.... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - Generals - 1864 - 340 pages
...FIELD, > CAMP NEAR DONELBON, Feb. 16, 1862. S To GENERAL SB BCCKNER, Confederate Army : Tours of tliis date, proposing an armistice, and appointment of commissioners...capitulation, is just received. No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can 64 accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866
...appointment of commissioners to settle on the terms of capitulation, is just received. " No terms, except terest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. 8. GRANT, " Brig.-Generol Commanding." Gen. Buckner's... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1864 - 510 pages
...appointment of commissioners to settle on the terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms, except unconditional and immediate surrender, can be accepted....I propose to move immediately on your works. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, US GRANT, Brigadier General Commanding. Gens. Floyd and Pillow,... | |
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