Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from William Conway and the Conway Celebration: At Camden, Maine, August 30, 1906
The executive officer of the yard held the rank of commander. His name was Ebenezer Farrand, and he belonged to New Jersey. The next in rank was Lieutenant F. B. Renshaw, from Pennsylvania. These two were brothers-in-law, both their wives being southern women, both traitors in disguise, and both doing their utmost to deceive the old commandant in every possible way, to the end that the yard should be surrendered to the rebels of Florida: for be it remembered that the Confederate States had not yet been formed, Farrand, the executive officer, stood naturally nearer to the commandant than did any other person. He was intended to be the right arm of the commandant, and being a man of northern birth, Captain Armstrong could not bring himself to believe that an officer so circumstanced was doing all he could to blind his eyes and to lead him astray as to the real condition of affairs. But that officer was covertly play ing into the hands of the secessionists every moment of the time.
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