Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . sted of eight light bat-teries. The weather was extremely cold, the waterhigh, much rain and snow fell, and the sufferingsof the men were intense. The enemys position,naturally strong, had been intrenched and was heavy fighting on three successive the 15th the enemy, fearing capture, made adesperate assault with the intention of cutting hisway out. Grant detected the object of the move-ment, repelled the assault, and by a vigorous at-tack secured so commanding a position that theenemy saw further resistance would be useless.
Appletons' cyclopædia of American biography . sted of eight light bat-teries. The weather was extremely cold, the waterhigh, much rain and snow fell, and the sufferingsof the men were intense. The enemys position,naturally strong, had been intrenched and was heavy fighting on three successive the 15th the enemy, fearing capture, made adesperate assault with the intention of cutting hisway out. Grant detected the object of the move-ment, repelled the assault, and by a vigorous at-tack secured so commanding a position that theenemy saw further resistance would be turned over the command to Pillow, who inturn resigned it to Buckner, and Floyd and Pillowescaped in the night on a steamboat. Over 3,000infantry and the greater portion of Forrests cav-alry made their escape at the same time. On the16th Buckner wrote proposing that commissionersbe appointed to arrange for terms of replied: No terms other than an uncon-ditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. GRANT GRANT 711. tymft^^ I propose to move immediately upon your garrison was surrendered the same day, un-conditionally. The capture included 14,623 men,05 cannon, and 17,600small-arms. The killed andwounded numbered about 2,500. Grants loss w:is2,041 in killed, wounded, and missing. This wasthe first capture of a prominent strategic point since the warbegan, and in-deed the onlysubstantial vic-tory thus farfor the Na-tional arms. Itopened up twoimportant navi-gable rivers, andleft the enemyno strong foot-hold in Ken-tucky or Ten-nessee. Grantwas soon after-ward made amajor - generalof volunteers,his commissiondating from 16Feb., and hispopularity throughout the country began from thatday. He urged a prompt following up of this vic-tory, and set out for Nashville, 28 Feb., withoutwaiting for instructions, but telegraphing that heshould go if he received no orders to the this, and under the pretence that he had notforwarded to his s
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