 | United States. War Dept - Confederate States of America - 1902 - 866 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 FORREST, Major-General, Commanding Confederate Troops. To which I replied as follows : HEADQUARTERS... | |
 | James Molony Spaight - War (International law) - 1911 - 540 pages
...Paducah, Tennessee, in March, 1864, he summoned the garrison in these words : If you surrender, you will be treated as prisoners of war ; but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter. He failed to capture the place, however, and the earnestness of his grim words was not put to the proof.3... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1891 - 852 pages
...unnecessary effusion of Wood, I demand the surrender of the fort and troops, with all puolic property. If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners...have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter. NB FORREST, Major-Oeneral, Commanding Confederate Troops. To which I replied as follows : HEADQUARTERS... | |
 | Lloyd Lewis - History - 1993 - 744 pages
...insistence put upon the Federal garrison at Paducah by Forrest in March, 1864: If you surrender, you will be treated as prisoners of war, but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter. Like the Union commanders at Resaca and Paducah, Hardee refused to be intimidated, and rejected the... | |
 | Richard L. Fuchs - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 210 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...but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter.20 Colonel Hicks replied unequivocally: "I have been placed here by my Government to defend... | |
 | Hondon B. Hargrove - History - 2003 - 274 pages
...after an hour sent a flag of truce. A demand for surrender was made, concluding with the usual threat: "If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners...have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter." Colonel Hicks refused to surrender, and the assault was resumed with greater fury. The heroic defenders... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - United States - 1885 - 1152 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...have 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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 668 pages
...was placed there to defend the works and should discharge his duty. Forrest's demand was thus stated: "If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners...have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter." A second charge was made and repulsed, the assailants meanwhile plundering the town and occupying every... | |
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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. 
