| Military art and science - 1885 - 804 pages
...Men who have shown so much endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg will always challenge tho respect of an adversary, and I can 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... | |
| Ulysses Simpson Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 1885 - 614 pages
...challenge the respect of an adversary, and I can 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 of capitulation, because I have no terms other than those indicated above." At three o'clock... | |
| Albert Deane Richardson - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 644 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, and, I can assure yon, will be treated with all the respect due prisoners of war. I do not favor the proposition of appointing... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1886 - 528 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 prisioners of war. I do not favor the proposition of appointing commissioners to arrange the terms... | |
| L. T. Remlap - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1885 - 790 pages
...received, proposes an armigtlce of several hours, for the purpose of arranging terms of capituin Vicksburg, will always challenge the respect of an adversary,...terms of capitulation, because I have no other terms Mian those indicated above. I am, General, very respectfully your obedient servant, US GRANT, Major-General.... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - United States - 1888 - 580 pages
...surrender, Grant had written : " 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 toarrange the terms... | |
| James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 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... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - History - 1888 - 574 pages
...challenge the respect of an adversary, and I can 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 of capitulation, because I have no terms other than those indicated above." As soon as the... | |
| William M. Thayer - 1889 - 456 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 prisoners of war. I do not favour the proposition of appointing commissioners to arrange the terms... | |
| Benjamin Perley Poore, O. H. Tiffany - Presidents - 1885 - 792 pages
...endurance and courage as those now in Vicksburg, will always challenge the respect of an adversary, and. 1 can assure you, will be treated with all the respect due them as prisoners of war. I do not favor the appointment of commissioners to arrange cerms of capitulation, because I have no other terms than those... | |
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