 | Jesse Ames Spencer - United States - 1866 - 620 pages
...place. Forrest sent an imperative demand, March 25th, for a surrender, concluding with these significant words : " If you surrender, you shall be treated as...have to storm your works you may expect no quarter." Hicks replied gallantly, that having been placed there to defend the post, he should do it without... | |
 | Presbyterian church in the U.S.A. - 1864 - 662 pages
...they have determined to adopt. * * * Forrest then demanded an unconditional surrender (of Paducah), closing his communication to Colonel Hicks in these...prisoners of war. But if I have to storm your works, yon may expect no quarter." This demand and threat were met by a refusal on the part of Colonel Hicks... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1864 - 1062 pages
...unnecessary effusion of blood, I demand the surrender of the fort and troops, with all public property. If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of war ; but if I bave to storm your works, you may expect no quarter. "NB FORREST, " Major General, Commanding Confederate... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 842 pages
...blood, I demand the surrender of the fort and troops, with all the public stores. ]f yon surrender, yon shall be treated as prisoners of war ; but, if I have to ttorm your works, you may expe.ct no quarter. " N. 13. FORREST, Maj.-Gen. Com'ding." Both Booth and... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - United States - 1865 - 1244 pages
...by fighting, Forrest next demanded an unconditional surrender, and closed his letter of demand with these words : " If you surrender, you shall be treated...to storm, your works, you may expect no quarter." Colonel Hicks replied, saying that he should not surrender ; that he had been placed there to defend... | |
 | Frank Moore - United States - 1865 - 830 pages
...unnecessary effusion of blood, I demand the surrender of the Fort and troops, with all public property. If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners...have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter. NB FORKEST, Major-General Commanding Confederate Troops. Colonel HICKS, Commanding Federal Forces at... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 870 pages
...blood, I demand a surrender of the ARMY OPERATIONS. fort and troops, with all the public store«. If yon surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war,...have to storm your works you may expect no quarter. NB FORREST, Maj.-Gen. Com'ing. Col. Hicks replied as follows : IlEAIXJFABTIKS POST PADTCAH. I РАЛШСАЯ,... | |
 | Thomas Mears Eddy - Illinois - 1866 - 736 pages
...blood, I demand a surrender of the fort and troops with all the public stores. If you surrender you will be treated as prisoners of war, but if I have to storm your .works, you may expect no quarter. "NB FORREST, Major-General Commanding." To this summons from a greatly superior force Colonel Hicks... | |
 | HORACE GREELEY - 1866 - 808 pages
...unnecessary effusion of bloodj I demand the surrender of the fort and troops, with all the public stores. If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners...have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter. " K B. FORREST, Maj.-Gen. Com'ding." Both Booth and Bradford having been killed, the precise terms... | |
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If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of war ; but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter. 
