Florida was but a day behind Mississippi, Alabama went out the next day after Florida, Georgia eight days later, and Louisiana a week after Georgia.

Exultation rose high in Charleston.

All the Gulf and South Atlantic States were now sure, but the great border states still hung fire.

There was a clamor for Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland and Missouri, and, though the promises from them came thick and fast, they did not go out.

But the fiery energy of Charleston and the lower South was moving forward over all obstacles.