 | 276 pages
...commissioners would meet with "a like number, to be named by yourself, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save...maintain my position for a yet indefinite period." Bowen, a friend of Grant's before the war, delivered the communication. Grant ignored Pemberton's attempted... | |
 | Duane P. Schultz - History - 2002 - 486 pages
...three commissioners, to meet a like number to be named by yourself, at such place and hour today as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save...maintain my position for a yet indefinite period. Grant was in no mood to consider surrender terms or to have the matter discussed by commissioners from... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 532 pages
...commissioners, to meet a like number to be named by yourself, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save...maintain my position for a yet indefinite period. The communication will be handed you under a flag of truce, by Major-General John S. Bowen." It was... | |
 | John C. Pemberton - History - 2002 - 384 pages
...yourself, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save further effusion of blood, which must otherwise be...period. This communication will be handed you under flag of truce by Major-General John S. Bowen. I am, General, very respectfully, your obedient servant,... | |
 | Michael B. Ballard - History - 2004 - 516 pages
...Grant each name three commissioners to discuss details, and added a statement with defiant overtones: "I make this proposition to save the further effusion...frightful extent, feeling myself fully able to maintain imposition for a yet indefinite period." Pemberton asked Bowen, a prewar acquaintance of Grant's, to... | |
 | S. Emma Edmonds, Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds - History - 2005 - 413 pages
...three commissioners to meet a like number to be named by yourself, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save...further effusion of blood, which must otherwise be died to a frightful extent, feeling myself fully able to maintain my position for a yet indefinite... | |
 | Ulysses S. Grant - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 545 pages
...commissioners, to meet a like number to be named by yourself, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save...communication will be handed you under a flag of truce, by Major-General John S. Bowen." It was a glorious sight to officers and soldiers on the line where these... | |
 | Thomas Prentice Kettell - United States - 1866 - 828 pages
...commissioners, to meet a like number to be named by your* self, at such place and hour to-day as you may find convenient. I make this proposition to save...communication will be handed you under a flag of truce by Major-General James Bowen. " Yery respectfully, your obedient servant, "JC PEMBERTON." • To this... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 668 pages
...AAG John A. Ratlins, June 16th, 1863. f Admiral Porter to Secretary Welles, June 18, 1863. he wrote, "to save the further effusion of blood which must...able to maintain my position for a yet indefinite period.77 To this General Grant replied, " Lieutenant-General JC Pemberton, Commanding ' Confederate... | |
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I have the honor to propose an armistice for hours, with the view to arranging terms for the capitulation of Vicksburg. To this end, if agreeable to you, I will appoint three commissioners, to meet a like number to be named by yourself, at such place... 
