Benham, George Chittenden A YEAR OF WRECK 44087 A True Story BY A VICTIM NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. All rights reserved. Stereotyped by Robert Clarke & Co. THIS story is dedicated to my much esteemed partner, General Roderic Dhu Dobson. His estimate was slightly incorrect, but there was yet a speculation in the enterprise. I secured a march in time, living in the one year not, less than ten; at that rate a man of forty would have lived four hundred years. Whether it was an advantage or not, this book must say, I met the Southern people in a way which but for the Dobson estimate had been impossible. Then in Dobson himself! While not wishing to be understood as meaning that the world is not fuli of good men, yet learned that there was one person-and that Dobson— who, take him all in all, for desirable traits—the cap-sheaf of which was fidelity to friendships-you "shall not look upon his like again." (iii) |