The women, too, were full of zeal and enthusiasm and they urged the men to go to the front.

With the full consent of the lower South the capital was to be moved from Montgomery to Richmond, the capital of Virginia, on the very border of the Confederacy, to look defiantly, as it were, across at Washington over a space which was to become the vast battlefield of America, although few then dreamed it.

The progress of President Davis to the new capital, set in the very face of the foe, was to be one huge triumph of faith and loyalty.
Harry heard nothing in Charleston but joyful news.

There was not a single note of gloom.

Europe, which must have its cotton, would favor the success of the South.