03121cam a22003253u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000410011324500320015426400510018630000470023733600260028433700260031033800360033650000900037250000310046250801860049352018150067953400610249465300630255565300790261885600550269785600430275276397UtSlPG20260610134752.0mcr n260607r20251884utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aCraddock, Charles Egbert,d1850-192210aWhere the battle was fought 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aThe battle of the title is the Battle of Stones River, Dec. 31, 1862 to Jan. 2, 1863.  aRelease date is 2025-06-27  aPeter 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)  a"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.)  pOriginally published:cBoston: Ticknor and Company, 1884  aMurfreesboro (Tenn.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction  aMurfreesboro (Tenn.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction4 uhttps://archive.org/details/wherebattlewasfo00crad40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76397