Already arrangements had been made for a great convention at Montgomery in Alabama, and a new government would be formed differing but little from that of the old Union.
Now Harry began to hear much of a man, of whom he had heard his father speak, but who had slipped entirely from his mind.

It was Jefferson Davis, a native of Kentucky like Abraham Lincoln.

He had been a brave and gallant soldier at Buena Vista.

It was said that he had saved the day against the overwhelming odds of Santa Anna.

He had been Secretary of War in the old Union, now dissolved forever, according to the Charleston talk.