 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1869 - 868 pages
...unnecessary efl'iniou of blood, I demand a surrender of tho fort and troops, with all the public stores. If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of war, but if I hare to storm your works you may expect no quarter. NB FOhUEST, Maj.-Gen. 'Com'ing. Col. Hicks replied... | |
 | John William Draper - United States - 1870 - 716 pages
...advantage, taking from Smith six guns, and compelling him to retreat over the country he had laid waste. shall be treated as prisoners of war ; but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter." He made three assaults, and then retired, having lost 1500 men. On the 12th of April he was at Fort... | |
 | Willard W. Glazier - United States - 1875 - 416 pages
...before this, Forrest had summoned Paducah in unmistakable terms, closing with these words, — " If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of...have to storm your works you may expect no quarter. After the- capture of Fort Pillow, Forrest made a rapid retreat into Mississippi unmolested,— the... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 640 pages
...unnecessary effusion of blood, 1 demand tHc surrenderor the fort and troops, with oil the public stores. If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of...have to storm your works^ you may expect no quarter' N. n. FOEEEST, Maj.-Gtn. Com ding. And on the Iqlh of April, 1864, the next day after the massacre... | |
 | Louis-Philippe-Albert d'Orléans comte de Paris - United States - 1888 - 722 pages
...to surrender. This summons, written in Forrest's own hand, ends •with the following threat : " If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of...have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter." It has been said, to excuse the Southern general for having spoken like a redskin or a condottitre... | |
 | Charles Carleton Coffin - United States - 1889 - 504 pages
...unnecessary effusion of blood, I demand the surrender of the fort and troops, with all public property. If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of...to storm your works you may expect no quarter.(") " NB FORREST." No other Confederate commander, during the war, appended such a threat to a summons... | |
 | William T. Alexander - African Americans - 1800 - 662 pages
...seen fit to summon the surrender of Padu cah, and his order contained the following language : " If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of...have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter." Both Booth and Bradford having been killed, the precise terms in which he summoned Fort Pillow, do... | |
 | John George Nicolay, John Hay - United States - 1890 - 600 pages
...25th of March preceding, in demanding the surrender of Paducah, Kentucky, General Forrest wrote: " If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of...have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter." And on the day following the Fort Pillow massacre, General A. Buford, one of Forrest's brigadiers,... | |
 | Edward Austin Johnson - African Americans - 1891 - 414 pages
...cleaned. Meanwhile, under a flag of truce, Gen. Forest demanded the surrender of the fort, stating, " If I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter." The Confederates, taking advantage of the truce, were hiding in the trenches from which Major Bradford... | |
 | John Allan Wyeth - Forrest, Nathan Bedford, 1821-1877 - 1899 - 782 pages
...unnecessary effusion of blood he demanded the surrender of the troops, with all public property. " If you surrender you shall be treated as prisoners of...have to storm your works you may expect no quarter." f The plucky Federal colonel, however, did not intend to give up without a fight. Forrest had no intention... | |
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If you surrender, you shall be treated as prisoners of war ; but if I have to storm your works, you may expect no quarter. 
