Essentials of United States history . ms he would receivethe surrender of the fort. Grant im-mediately rephed: Yours of this dateproposing armistice, and appointment General A. S. commissioners to settle terms of ca-pitulation, is just received. No termsexcept unconditional and immediatesurrender can be accepted. I pro-pose to move immediately upon yourworks. ^ Buckner straightway sur-rendered. Grant then telegraphed toWashington: We have taken FortDonelson and from twelve thousand tofifteen thousand prisoners, includingGenerals Buckner and Bushrod ; also about twenty tho
Essentials of United States history . ms he would receivethe surrender of the fort. Grant im-mediately rephed: Yours of this dateproposing armistice, and appointment General A. S. commissioners to settle terms of ca-pitulation, is just received. No termsexcept unconditional and immediatesurrender can be accepted. I pro-pose to move immediately upon yourworks. ^ Buckner straightway sur-rendered. Grant then telegraphed toWashington: We have taken FortDonelson and from twelve thousand tofifteen thousand prisoners, includingGenerals Buckner and Bushrod ; also about twenty thousandstands of arms, forty-eight pieces ofartillery, seventeen heavy guns, fromtwo thousand to four thousand horses,and large quantities of commissarystores. The Confederate line of de-fense was broken, and Nashville, Co-lumbus, and Bowling Green were soonoccupied by the Union forces. Then general Beauregard. • This answer of Grants was much quoted, and, ever after, bis initi^l^V. S. were said to §taud for Uncouditional 288 ESSENTIALS OF UNITED STATES HISTORY New Madrid, Island Number Ten, and Fort Pillow on theMississippi surrendered. 374. The Battle of Shiloh. — Recovering from theirdefeats, the Confederates soon gathered a large force nearCorinth, a place in Mississippi on the main line of railroadeast from Memphis and a few miles west of the TennesseeRiver. The Union forces advanced up the Tennessee Riverin transports to Pittsburg Landing, There they disem-barked and marched forward to attack the Southern army was under the command of General A. S.
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