 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1878 - 722 pages
...appointment of commissioners to agree upon terms of surrender. Grant 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... | |
 | Julian K. Larke - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 538 pages
...ARMY IN THE FIELD, CAMP NEAR DONELSON, Feb. 16, 1862. To General SB BTJCKNER, Confederate Army : Youra of this date, proposing an armistice and appointment...unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. J propose to move immediately upon your works. I am, sir, very respectfully your obedient servant,... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 260 pages
...an armistice, in which to settle terms of surrender. To this General Grant replied, "No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works." General Buckner, with 15,000 men, at once yielded. From this note, General US Grant obtained the name... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - United States - 1879 - 264 pages
...armistice, in which to settle terms of surrender. To this General Grant replied, " No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works." General Buckner, with 15,000 men, at once yielded. From this note, General US Grant obtained the name... | |
 | James Baird McClure - 1879 - 260 pages
...until twelve o'clock to-day." To which General Grant replied: " 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... | |
 | J. T. Headley - Presidents - 1879 - 864 pages
...thousand of his brave soldiers had been stretched upon the frozen field, and he replied: "No terms but unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Buckner saw that postponement or arrangements of any kind to lessen his mortification... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1880 - 646 pages
...answer has become historical : ' Headquarters, Army in the Field, Camp near Donelaon. Feb. 16, 1862. ' 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, ' U. 8. GHANT. ' To General... | |
 | Education - 1887 - 804 pages
...regiment, and as he captures Fort Henry. Read his reply to Gen. Buckner at Fort Donelson : " No terms but an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Review the trying days at Pittsburg Landing and Shiloh. Follow him through the Vicksburg... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - United States - 1880 - 372 pages
...next morning asked Grant for an armistice to arrange terms of capitulation, the latter replied : " No terms other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted" ' (Feb. 16th, 1862). 14. The capture of these two forts caused the evacuation of Columbus — the so-styled... | |
 | Manning Ferguson Force - History - 1881 - 242 pages
...noon. General Grant replied, acknowledging the receipt of the letter, and adding : " No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Buckner replied: "The distribution of the forces under my command, incident to an... | |
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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. 
