 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1866 - 804 pages
...appointment of commissioners to settle on the terms of capitulation, is just 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, IT. S. GRANT, " Brig.-General Commanding." Gen. Buckner's... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 750 pages
...an armistice for the purpose of settling terms of surrender. General Grant replied: "No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works." The garrison did not wait the attack, but surrendered at discretion. General Buckner, and about 15,000... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1866 - 748 pages
...armistice for the purpose of settling terms of surrender. General Grant replied: " No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works." The garrison did not wait the attack, but surrendered at discretion. General Buckner, and about 15,000... | |
 | William Swinton - History - 1867 - 580 pages
...end he requested an armistice till noon. To this Grant promptly penned his characteristic reply : " No terms other than an unconditional and immediate...surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Bir:kncr, demurring at what he called these " ungenerous and unchivalric terms,"... | |
 | Society of the Army of the Tennessee - United States - 1877 - 554 pages
...and in that view suggest an armistice until twelve o'clock to-day." "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... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1867 - 848 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 yonr works. " I am, very respectfully, yonr obedient servant, UT. S. GEANT, "Brig. -General Commanding."... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1868 - 628 pages
...on Donelson, and a note was received from Buckner, to which Grant at once replied: *' SLR,—Yours of this date, proposing an armistice and appointment...works. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, "US GKANT." To this Buckner replied: cc SIK,—The distribution of the forces under my command,... | |
 | Edward Howland - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 670 pages
...ARMY IN THE FIELD, CAMP NEAR DONELSON, February 16, 1862. To GENERAL SB BUCKNER, Confederate Army. Yours of this date, proposing an armistice and appointment...surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works. I am, sir, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, US GRANT, Brigadier General USA,... | |
 | Edward Deering Mansfield - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 386 pages
...IN THE FIELD, ) " Camp near Donelson^ February 16, 1862. j "To GENERAL SB BUCKNER, Confederate Army: "Yours of this date, proposing an armistice and appointment...surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works. " I am sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, thousand small arms, and the... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Presidents - 1868 - 494 pages
...nr THE FIELD, Camp near Donelsoii, Feb. 16, 1862. To GESTERAI, SB BTJCKNEK, Confederate Army : • Yours of this date, proposing an armistice and appointment...unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. 1 propose to move immedv"&]/ upon your works. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant,... | |
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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. 
