Project Gutenberg 2025-06-27 Public domain in the USA. 201 Craddock, Charles Egbert 1850 1922 Dembry, R. Emmett Murfree, Mary Noailles Where the battle was fought : $b a novel $aBoston :$bTicknor and Company, $c1884. The battle of the title is the Battle of Stones River, Dec. 31, 1862 to Jan. 2, 1863. Peter Becker, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Where the Battle Was Fought" by Charles Egbert Craddock is a novel written in the late 19th century. Set on a haunted Tennessee battlefield during Reconstruction, it follows the proud but ruined General Vayne and his lively daughter Marcia as their isolated, mortgaged household intersects with Captain John Estwicke, a Union officer unsettled by the ground’s grim memories. In parallel, a financier, Maurice Brennett, and his improvident associate Travis scheme around an inheritance tied to Antoinette St. Pierre, stirring legal and moral peril. Expect a blend of Gothic atmosphere, postwar social tension, and intrigue over identity, honor, and property. The opening of the novel lingers on a ghost-rumored battlefield and a shattered mansion where General Vayne, Marcia, and Aunt Kirby receive Estwicke, whose uneasy reaction to “Fort Despair” hints at a hidden past; a ferryman later mistakes him for a dead Confederate officer who once burned the bridge there. In town, Estwicke befriends a young lawyer, Meredith, then catches a card-sharp cheating during a poker game at a hotel; with an unloaded pistol he forces the cheat to disgorge the winnings, only to reject the money in disgust. Meanwhile Brennett, captivated by Estwicke’s fierce presence, turns to urgent business: his partner Travis has been cut out of expected funds by a codicil favoring Antoinette St. Pierre, so they plot to regain value by pressing her to swap her city houses (clouded by a remainder-man’s title, John Doane Fortescue) for Travis’s plantations, or even to marry her, sweetening the approach with a storied family heirloom. These threads set a mood of ruin and calculation, establishing the central characters, tensions, and schemes without yet resolving them. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/wherebattlewasfo00crad 20201205073729craddock 1884 us Reading ease score: 71.1 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Murfreesboro (Tenn.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction Murfreesboro (Tenn.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction PS Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Novels Category: American Literature 803378 2025-07-30T08:00:10.887566 text/html 778331 2025-06-27T11:44:35 text/html 675484 2025-07-30T08:00:21.383496 application/epub+zip 671378 2025-07-30T08:00:12.894562 application/epub+zip 488887 2025-07-30T08:00:11.870655 application/epub+zip 1376746 2025-07-30T08:00:27.884459 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1329482 2025-07-30T08:00:20.462513 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 747673 2025-07-30T08:00:09.165515 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 727740 2025-06-27T11:44:35 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 14373 2025-07-30T08:00:28.031438 application/rdf+xml 17275 2025-07-30T08:00:12.125551 image/jpeg 2327 2025-07-30T08:00:11.998547 image/jpeg 763897 2025-07-30T08:00:10.961550 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia