Recollections of a Checkered Lifetime, Vol. 2
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Excerpt from Recollections of a Checkered Lifetime, Vol. 2: Told for His Children in His Old Age It was a brain-busy time. All the wheels of activity were rolling on diligently, swiftly, except the wagonwheels and artillerywheels of the Army of the Potomac. These, indeed, were so quietly resting in their lazy camps that the whole country had grown weary of reading in the newspapers the stereotyped announcement that "All is quiet on the Potomac." The vociferous response of "On to Richmond" had also become a stereotyped re-print. From what has already been set forth, it may be imagined that my own brain was pretty well occupied, but there was still room in it for the formation of many plans and the development of a number of curious undertakings. Speculation in stocks and gold, especially the latter, was all the while running insanely wild in New York and other financial centres and I formed an idea that it was almost true patriotism to be what was called a "bear" in gold. I therefore went in, a little at first and then deeper. I had good correspondents, was not by any means a bad judge of the changing situations and their effects upon the markets. On the whole, I succeeded pretty well, rarely making any important loses, except in stocks. I had not the least idea that there was anything wrong in it, for a fellow in my position, and made no secret whatever of my financial transactions. My leading associate in New York was a banker named Edward Wollf, "Wollf Dike." He was a German by birth, of good family, highly educated, and we formed a strong personal friendship as well as business alliance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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