Chapter XXV

_A Stray Nobleman_ Of the many men whom it was my good fortune to meet while on the river as a boy, or as a young man, there was none who came nearer to filling the bill as a nobleman than Robert C. Eden, whose memory suggests the title of this chapter. Just what constitutes a nobleman in the college of heraldry, I am not qualified to assert. "Bob" Eden, as his friends fondly called him--Captain Eden, as he was known on the river, or Major Eden as he was better known in the closing days of the War of Secession--was…