 | 1886 - 850 pages
...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... | |
 | Orville James Victor - Generals - 1862 - 424 pages
...HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY IN THE FIELD, ) " CAMP NEAR DONELSON, February 16. ) " To General SB Buckner, Coufederate Army : ""Yours of this date, proposing an armistice...capitulation, is just received. No terms other than an unconditional and immemate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works.... | |
 | Orville James Victor - United States - 1862 - 412 pages
...appointment of Commissioners to settle on the terms of capitulation, is jnst 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."... | |
 | 1863 - 856 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.... | |
 | James Grant Wilson - Illinois - 1862 - 202 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 - 444 pages
...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—... | |
 | Charles Wheeler Denison - Generals - 1864 - 358 pages
...entire : — HEADQUARTERS, ARMY IN THE FIELD, CAMP NEAR DONELSON, Feb. 16, 1862. To Gen. SB BUCKNER, Confederate Army: — Yours of this date, proposing...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 - 424 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...other than unconditional and immediate surrender can 64 accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works. I am, respectfully, your obedient servant,... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - Battles - 1864 - 354 pages
...appointment of commissioners to agree upon terms by which the fort and the prisoners should be surrendered. " No terms, other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works," was General Grant's reply. Buckner thinks it unchivairous. Bow Buckner swindled a... | |
 | Confederate States of America. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 322 pages
...DONELSON, February 16, 1862. Gen. SB BUCKNER, Confederate Army : SIR : — Yours of this date, 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... | |
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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. 
