At this date the Confederate Army of the Tennessee was extended in a line with its right resting on the Tennessee and its left resting on the Mississippi.

Its rear rested on the rugged stone hills of the Chickasaba range, while its front rested on the marshes and bayous of the Yazoo.
Having thus--as far as we understand military matters--both its flanks covered and its rear protected, its position was one which we ourselves consider very comfortable.
It was thus in an admirable situation for holding a review or for discussing the Constitution of the United States in reference to the right of secession.
The following generals rode up and down in front of the army, namely, Mr.A.P.Hill, Mr.Longstreet, and Mr.Joseph Johnston.

All these three celebrated men are thus presented to our readers at one and the same time without extra charge.
But who is this tall, commanding figure who rides beside them, his head bent as if listening to what they are saying (he really isn't) while his eye alternately flashes with animation or softens to its natural melancholy?
(In fact, we can only compare it to an electric light bulb with the power gone wrong.) Who is it?
It is Jefferson C.Davis, President, as our readers will be gratified to learn, of the Confederate States.
It being a fine day and altogether suitable for the purpose, General Longstreet reined in his prancing black charger (during this distressed period all the horses in both armies were charged: there was no other way to pay for them), and in a few terse words, about three pages, gave his views on the Constitution of the United States.
Jefferson Davis, standing up in his stirrups, delivered a stirring harangue, about six columns, on the powers of the Supreme Court, admirably calculated to rouse the soldiers to frenzy.

After which General A.P.Hill offered a short address, soldier-like and to the point, on the fundamental principles of international law, which inflamed the army to the highest pitch.
At this moment an officer approached the President, saluted and stood rigidly at attention.

Davis, with that nice punctilio which marked the Southern army, returned the salute.
"Do you speak first ?" he said, "or did I ?" "Let me," said the officer.