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I am, sir, very respectfully, Your ob't se'v't, S. B. BUCKNER, Brig. Gen. To Brigadier-General U. S. Grant, Com'ding U. S. Forces, Near Fort Donelson. General S. B. BUCKNER, Confederate Army. SIR: 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.

Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant - The Memoirs of General Ulysses S. Grant, Part 2.

I am, sir, very respectfully, Your ob't se'v't, S. B. BUCKNER, Brig. Gen. To Brigadier-General U. S. Grant, Com'ding U. S. Forces, Near Fort Donelson. General S. B. BUCKNER, Confederate Army. SIR: 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.

Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant - Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant — Volume 1

I am, sir, very respectfully, Your ob't se'v't, S. B. BUCKNER, Brig. Gen. To Brigadier-General U. S. Grant, Com'ding U. S. Forces, Near Fort Donelson. General S. B. BUCKNER, Confederate Army. SIR: 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.

- Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals