People
This is the love of Jenny.
Who is Shadrach?
This is what happens to Matthew Creighton before he is able to go to town and inquire about Guy Wortman.
What is have a heart attack?
This is the year and month that the story begins.
What is 1861 in April?
These are the years of the Civil War.
What is 1861-1865?
This is why the book is called Across Five Aprils.
What are the five Aprils that cover the length of the book and Civil War?
This is the name of the person who was blamed for Mary's death.
Who is Travis Burdow?
This is how Jenny and Ross traveled to the east coast.
What is by train?
This is the state that the Creighton farm is in.
What is Illinois?
This is what Jethro carried with him when he went out into the fields to work.
What is a rifle?
This is where the Confederates first fired shots.
What is Fort Sumter?
This is the man who helped keep Jethro safe on his way back home.
Who is Dave Burdow?
This is how Eb got Jethro's attention from the woods.
What is he made turkey sounds?
This is where Jethro's dead siblings are buried.
What is Walnut Hill?
This nephew of Ellen visits and debates the southerners views of the war.
Who is Wilse Graham?
This is the place where Abraham Lincoln gave a short but famous speech.
What is Gettysburg?
This is the man who is heading up a gang to hassle the Creighton family.
Who is Guy Wortman?
This is what Ellen was dependent on led to headaches without it.
What is coffee?
This is where Tom says that many of his soldier friends died and why.
What is Donelson because many of them froze to death when they carelessly threw away their coats and blankets?
This is who Jethro was to contact if he saw Ebenezer Carron.
What is contact the Federal Registrars in Chicago to report it? (pg. 146)
This is the river that Shad told Jethro the North would try to gain control of.
What is the Mississippi?
This is the man who stopped Jethro on his trip to request a newspaper.
Who is Jake Roscoe?
This is why the well water was not being used at the Creighton farm.
What is because vandals put "coal oil" down it so it was not drinkable?
This is where Jethro marks Jenny's marriage record.
What is the family Bible?
This battle brought the war close to home for Jasper County.
What is Wilson's Creek?
This was the deadliest one day battle.
What is Antietam?
This is the newspaper man who befriends Jethro.
Who is Ross Milton?
This is how Sam Gardiner got even with Guy Wortman for his treatment of the Creightons.
What is he tricked him by acting like he was leaving town and then returning to hide in his shop until Guy tried to break in and steal stuff, so Sam shot him in the backside?
This is the town that Jethro journeys to.
What is Newton?
Who is Hig Phillips?
President of the Union during the Civil War and President of the Confederacy.
Who is Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?
This is the cousin of Jethro who deserts the army.
Who is Ebenezer Carron?
This is what Abe Lincoln is losing sleep over.
What is the situation with the deserters who want to return to their regiment?
Location where Tom was killed.
Where is Pittsburg Landing?
This makes Matt Creighton change his mind about Jenny marrying Shad.
What is Shad being seriously wounded and Ross Milton willing to take Jenny to Washington?
These were the two top generals in the war. (one from each side)
What is Ulysses S. Grant, general of the Union, and Robert E. Lee of the Confederate army?
He was in the Reb prison that John was in charge of.
Who is Bill?
This is the gift that Sherman presented to the President on Christmas day.
What is capturing Savannah?
This is the city in Georgia that Sherman burned down.
What is Atlanta?
This was Bill's message to his ma through John's letter.
What is that he was not at Pittsburgh Landing?
This is the conversation with Ross Milton on pg. 199 that troubles Jethro even though he doesn't fully understand it.
What is the fact that even though the war will come to an end, peace may not come?
Writes a letter to the Creighton family about Shad's injuries.
Who is Shad's aunt (Victoria)?
Jethro and the nation mourned this.
What is the assassination and death of Lincoln?
This is where Shad found Jethro reminiscing about the family.
Where is Walnut Hill?
This is the decision Lincoln shared with Jethro about the deserters.
What is being allowed to return to their officers by April 1st without extra punishment?
This is where they signed a surrender treaty to end the Civil War.
This brother died in the war.
Who is Tom?
This is what all the male neighbors were doing at Matthew Creighton's home.
What is to help build a barn and take shifts in the field planting.
This is the place where deserting soldiers were camping.
What is Point Prospect?
The vote from this specific group reelected Lincoln in 1864.
Who are the soldiers?
This is the place where more men died in battle than 2 of the other combined.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?