 | United States - 1881 - 232 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... | |
 | John Denison Champlin - United States - 1881 - 624 pages
...sent a message to Grant, asking what terms he would grant him. Grant replied, "No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." After this, Grant, the initials of whose name are US G., was called by the soldiers... | |
 | John Denison Champlin - United States - 1881 - 626 pages
...sent a message to Grant, asking what terms he would grant him. Grant replied, " No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." After this, Grant, the initials of whose name are USG, was called by the soldiers... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1882 - 1048 pages
...ARMY IN THE FIELD, Camp near Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862. SIB : 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 cari be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1882 - 1042 pages
...HEADQUARTERS ARMY IN THE FIELD, Camp near Fort Donelson, February 16, 1862. 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... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1883 - 412 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... | |
 | Frank Abial Flower - Republican Party - 1884 - 662 pages
...Kuckner'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 General Lloyd's brigade,... | |
 | Charles H. Evans - 1884 - 234 pages
...February 16, General Buckner proposed capitulation. Grant's reply was curt and decided : ' No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works.' The Confederates saw themselves obliged to accept these terms, so sternly offered ; and ever afterwards... | |
 | Clara Emma Cheney - United States - 1884 - 586 pages
...Grant to ask the terms upon which he must surrender. He received the answer, " No terms other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." It was quickly over. As the Union troops marched into the fort that bright Sunday... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1884 - 572 pages
...of hard fights forced the commander to ask for terms. 3. General Grant replied : " No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." This terse declaration gave General Grant distinction, and caused the country, eager... | |
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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. 
