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02/16/2004: "U. S. Grant"

On this day in 1862, General Ulysses S. Grant won the first major Union victory of the Civil War, when Fort Donelson, on the Cumberland River in Tennessee, surrendered with some 15,000 troops. When the garrison's commander, General Simon B. Buckner, requested his Union counterpart's terms for surrender, Grant replied, "No terms except unconditional surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works." For many, from that point on Grant's initials would stand for "unconditional surrender."



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