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. A History of the Modern World, 1815-1910 - Page 38by Oscar Browning - 1912Full view - About this book
| 1886 - 850 pages
...and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted....propose to move immediately on your works.' Buckner surrendered. This stern determination, though perhaps the ruling feature of Grant's character, did... | |
| Frank Moore - 1862 - 810 pages
...proposing an armistice and appointment of Commissioners to settle terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms, other than an unconditional and immediate...surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works. I am sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, US GRANT, Brig. -Gen. US Commanding.... | |
| 1863 - 856 pages
...appointment of commissioners to settle on the terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms, except unconditional and immediate surrender, can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, US GRANT, Brigadier-General Commanding. The answer... | |
| Orville James Victor - 1862 - 412 pages
...appointment of Commissioners to settle on the terms of capitulation, is jnst received. " No terms, except unconditional and immediate surrender, can be accepted. " I propose to move immediately on your works. " I am very respectfully, your obedient servant, " US GRANT, " Brigadier-General Commanding." " HEADQUARTERS,... | |
| 1863 - 444 pages
...LARKE. Illustrated with accurate Portrait on Steel, and Views of the principal Battles. " No terras but unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works." GEANT то BITCKXEH. SYNOPSIS OF THE CONTENTS. Grant's Karl y Days— At West Poiiit— Enters tho... | |
| Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...appointment of commissioners to settle on the terms of capitulation, is just received. No terms, except unconditional and immediate surrender, can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works. I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, US GRANT, Brigadier General Commanding. Gens. Floyd... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - 1864 - 514 pages
...Surrender of FORT DONELSON, VICKSBURG, and the BATTLES AT PITTSBURG LANDING and CHATTANOOGA. " So terms but unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately on your works." — GRANT TO BUCKNBB. SYNOPSIS OF THE CONTENTS. Grant's Early Days — At West Point — Enters the... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1866 - 842 pages
...appointment of commissioners to settle on the terms of capitulation, is just received. " No terms, except terest was somehow the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend ' "I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. 8. GRANT, " Brig.-Generol Commanding." Gen. Buckner's... | |
| Charles Carleton Coffin - 1864 - 354 pages
...agree upon terms by which the fort and the prisoners should be surrendered. " No terms, other than unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works," was General Grant's reply. Buckner thinks it unchivairous. Bow Buckner swindled a... | |
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