James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

[214] 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 Keeble attracted the attention of his superior officers on every field where his regiment was engaged, and always won commendation for skill and gallantry. He had won promotion in all grades from lieutenant to colonel. At Drewry's Bluff and in the battles of the 16th, 17th, 18th and 30th of June, he made his name and regiment famous. Colonel Fulton belonged to a family of heroes. He fought in the ranks at Shiloh, and commanded the Forty-fourth at Perryville, Murfreesboro and Chickamauga, where he was noted for soldierly bearing; and thenceforward was identified with Bushrod Johnson's famous brigade and often in command of it. He never failed to confer distinction upon his regiment and brigade, and to reflect honor and glory upon the State of Tennessee. After the fall of Colonel Fulton, Col. John M. Hughs, Twenty-eighth Tennessee, commanded the brigade.

The mine sprung by Burnside's corps, and the ‘crater’ created by the explosion, on the morning of the 30th of July, 1864, was in that portion of Bushrod Johnson's