 | Everett Chamberlin - Campaign literature - 1872 - 586 pages
...FIELD, ••CAMP NEAR DONELSON, February i6th, 1862. " To GENERAL SB BUCKNER, Confederate Army . " Yours of this date, proposing an armistice and appointment...to settle terms of capitulation, is just received, ffa terms other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - United States - 1872 - 890 pages
...commissioners to agree upon terms of capitulation. Grant's reply was a memorable one : " No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works." Buckner, in a letter expressing his deep chagrin, accepted the terms and surrendered. The fighting... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - United States - 1872 - 690 pages
...appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works " Buckner's reply was in a very disgusted tone, and it may be excused to him under... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1874 - 856 pages
...Bnckner's proposal that commissioners be appointed to arrange the terms of capitulation, Grant wrote : " No terms other than an unconditional and immediate...surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." The capture of Fort Donelson with all its defenders except Gen. Floyd's brigade was... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1880 - 664 pages
...with no right to ask any terms excepting such as humanity required, so he said, " No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Grant's reply irritated the helpless Buckner, and, with folly equal to his chagrin,... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1876 - 358 pages
...the Federal general, proposing nn armistice to agree upon terms of surrender, to which Grant replied, *'No terms other than an unconditional and immediate...surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Which rcnlv has given to US Grant the popular sobriquet, Unconditional Surrender... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - North America - 1877 - 764 pages
...upon terms of surrender. Grant CHAP. XIV. ARMY POSTAI^SERVICE. 1557 replied : " No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." This answer was followed by the speedy surrender of the fort, and of thirteen thousand... | |
 | William Preston Johnston - Generals - 1878 - 806 pages
...JlEADQCABTEHS, AKMT IN TBS FtH-D, I FOBT DOXELSOX, February 16, 1S62. ) SIR: Tours 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... | |
 | International portrait gallery - 1878 - 462 pages
...general prepared to give ? " asked the leader of the Confederates. " No terms," replied Grant, " except unconditional and immediate surrender, can be accepted ; I propose to move immediately on your works." General Grant, as everybody knows, is neither a speaker nor a writer ; he is the last man to whom could... | |
 | William Preston Johnston - Generals - 1878 - 806 pages
...IlEAI>0.rAHTEE9, ARMY IS TIIE FlELD, I FOBT DOXELSO.V, February 16, 1SG2. f SIE: Yours of this date, proposing armistice and appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. Ko terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately... | |
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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. 
