Refreshed by abundant sleep and good food he was in the highest of spirits.

They were embarked upon a great adventure and he believed that it would be successful.

His confidence was shared by all those about him.

Meanwhile the army advanced in diverging columns upon the Mississippi capital.
Jackson, on Pearl River, had suddenly assumed a vast importance in Dick's mind, and yet it was but a tiny place, not more than three or four thousand inhabitants.

The South was almost wholly agricultural, and cities, great in a political and military sense, were in reality but towns.