# The Storm Centre: A Novel

Author: Craddock, Charles Egbert, 1850-1922

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35423

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Storm+Centre%3A+A+Novel+Craddock&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The place reminded him then and later of the storm centre of a cyclone. Outside the tempests of Civil War raged. He could hear, as he sat in the quiet, book-lined room, the turbulent drums fitfully beating in tented camps far down the Tennessee River. Through the broad, old-fashioned window he saw the purple hills opposite begin to glow with a myriad of golden gleams, pulsing like fireflies, that told of thousands of troops in bivouac. He read the mystic message of the signal lights, shining with a different lustre, moving athwart the eminence, then back again, expunged in blackness as a fort across the river flashed out an answer. A military band was playing at headquarters, down in the...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-storm-centre-a-novel-35423/chapters/11/index.md)