 | Abby Sage Richardson - United States - 1875 - 622 pages
...to surrender. He sent out to Grant to know what terms he would accept. " No terms but unconditional surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works," answered the general, who wrote this dispatch in his tent sitting on an empty crackerbox. Buckner made... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1876 - 358 pages
...addressed a note to the Federal general, proposing nn armistice to agree upon terms of surrender, to which Grant replied, *'No terms other than an unconditional...accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." Which rcnlv has given to US Grant the popular sobriquet, Unconditional Surrender Grant. I See p. 309,... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - North America - 1877 - 764 pages
...upon terms of surrender. Grant CHAP. XIV. ARMY POSTAI^SERVICE. 1557 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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. I propose to move immediately upon your works. I am, sir, very respectfully, your obedient servant, U. 8. GBANT, Brigadier- General commanding. General... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
