 | William Preston Johnston - Generals - 1878 - 806 pages
...and appointment of commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted....works. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. 8. GBANT, Brigadier- General commanding. General SB BCCKXE*, Confederate Army. GENERAL... | |
 | 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 five hundred... | |
 | 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... | |
 | James Baird McClure - 1879 - 260 pages
...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 works.'' General .Buckner surrendered at once his claims to Fort Donelson, with about fifteen thousand prisoners,... | |
 | J. T. Headley - Biography & Autobiography - 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 was out of the... | |
 | Julian K. Larke - Biography & Autobiography - 1879 - 538 pages
...capitulation, is just received. No terms other than an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. J propose to move immediately upon your works. I am, sir, very respectfully your obedient servant, US GRANT, Brig.- Gen. USA, Commanding. The reply was far from a pleasing one to the rebel... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...has become historical : ' Headquarters, Army in the Field, Camp near Donelaon. Feb. 16, 1862. ' Yours of this date, proposing an armistice and appointment...works. ' I am, sir, very respectfully, ' Your obedient servant, ' U. 8. GHANT. ' To General BB BUCKNEB, Confederate Army.' Buckner replied that circumstances... | |
 | 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 campaign and... | |
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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. 
