Across Five Aprils
By Irene Hunt.
Description
Back of book reads: In April, 1861, young Jethro Creighton heard the talk of war, but didn't understand what war meant. By the second April, he had seen his brothers go off to fight- two for the North, one for the South. Still but a boy, he had to take on a man's job on the Illinois farm, where the work in the fields was made heavier by the hard news of battles lost and men slain. By the fifth April, 1865, Jethro had experienced all the heartaches of a family, a state, a nation, in the the agony of a war pitting brother against brother, friend against friend. He saw peace come, it...
ISBN(s)
0448170329, 9780448170329
