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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter XI (search)
d to capture Petersburg and failed, was relieved from command. It is an incident sustaining the charge that spurious money was used by the Federal army; that on the 10th, Mr. C. A. Dana, secretary of war, telegraphed for $5,000,000 in Confederate money for use of General Grant in a cavalry expedition, on which he proposed to pay for everything taken. Was the money genuine? On the 18th, General Meade advanced his forces and made a general assault. Mr. Dana telegraphed to Washington that Birney with nine brigades bad failed; Martindale made an attempt to advance and failed; at 7 p. m., Wilcox of the Ninth corps, and Warren's corps again assaulted, but in vain. He lost in three days 9,500 men killed and wounded. Under orders of General Grant no more assaults were to be made. On the 30th of June, Col. R. H. Keeble, Seventeenth and Twenty-third Tennessee, was killed, and Col. John S. Fulton, Forty-fourth Tennessee, commanding Johnson's brigade, was mortally wounded. Colonel Keeb