 Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg, will always challenge the respect of an adversary, and I can assure you, will be treated with all the respect due them as prisoners of. war. I do not favor the proposition of...  The Rebellion Record: June '63-Nov. '63 - Page 143edited by - 1864Full view - About this book
 | James Irvin Robertson (Jr.) - United States - 1913 - 328 pages
...of the city and garrison. Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg will always challenge the respect of an adversary,...assure you will be treated with all the respect due to prisoners of war. When Bowen,1 who had been sent with the letter, returned, Pemberton understood... | |
 | United States. War Department - Confederate States of America - 1972 - 896 pages
...of the city and garrison. Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg will always challenge the respect of an adversary, and I can assure yon will be treated with all the respect due to prisoners of war. I do not fa vor the proposition of... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 1228 pages
...the city and garrison. Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg, will always challenge the respect of an adversary,...assure you will be treated with all the respect due to prisoners of war. I do not favor the proposition of appointing commissioners to arrange the terms... | |
 | A. A. Hoehling - History - 1996 - 406 pages
...surrender of the garrison. Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg will always challenge the respect of an adversary,...above. I am, General, very respectfully, your obedient servant, This Friday, in spite of "the confusion prevailing" in Vicksburg and the fact that suddenly—... | |
 | 276 pages
...garrison." But, he continued, "Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg will always challenge the respect of an adversary,...assure you will be treated with all the respect due to prisoners of war." Grant rejected the idea of commissioners because he considered his terms firm... | |
 | Jean Edward Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 785 pages
...unconditional surrender. "Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg, will always challenge the respect of an adversary, and I can assure you will always be treated with all the respect due to prisoners of war." Grant softened the message by telling... | |
 | Duane P. Schultz - History - 2002 - 486 pages
...of the city and garrison. Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg will always challenge the respect of an adversary, and I can assure you that you will be treated with all the respect due to prisoners of war. I do not favor the proposition... | |
 | John C. Pemberton - History - 2002 - 384 pages
...the city and garrison. Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as shown now in Vicksburg, will always challenge the respect of an adversary,...assure you will be treated with all the respect due to prisoners of war. I determined spirit you manifest and his expected co-operation encourage me to... | |
 | Michael B. Ballard - History - 2004 - 516 pages
...splinter of an olive branch: "Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg will always challenge the respect of an adversary,...assure you will be treated with all the respect due to prisoners of war." Grant rejected Pemberton's commissioners' idea, for he considered his terms nonnegotiable.... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - 2004 - 764 pages
...therefore unnecessary, adding: " Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those in Vicksburg will always challenge the respect of an adversary,...assure you will be treated with all the respect due to prisoners of war. " But there was a conference on the lines at 3 pm between General Pemberton, accompanied... | |
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