Third Series—No. 14. PROVIDENCE: PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. 1885. PROVIDENCE PRESS COMPANY, PRINTERS. BY GEORGE H. PETTIS, [Brevet Captain United States Volunteers; Late First Lieutenant Company K, First California Infantry, and First Lieutenant and Adjutant First New Mexico Infantry.] PROVIDENCE: PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY. 1885. [Edition limited to two hundred and fifty copies.]...

The first battle of Bull Run had been fought. The government had become satisfied that the slaveholder's rebellion was not to be put down with seventy-five thousand men. The Union people of the United States now fully realized that the rebels were to use every effort on their part towards the establishment of the Confederacy, and the men of the north, on their part, were ready to "mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor" to preserve the government as their fat

On pages 6 and 7 read for "General Joe Johnston," General Albert Sidney Johnston....