| A | B |
|---|
| Bull Run | two Union military disasters |
| Gettysburg | a great Northern victory |
| Fort Sumter | Confederate attack that began the war |
| Vicksburg | Grant's control of the Mississippi |
| Appomattox | Lee's surrender to Grant |
| Shadrach Yale | plans to return to college after the war |
| Dave Burdow | protects Jethro from an ambush |
| Bill Creighton | enlists in the Confederate Army |
| Eb Carron | sought by Federal Registrars |
| Sam Gardiner | wounds Guy Wortman with buckshot |
| Shadrach Yale is from | Pennsylvania |
| Ellen Creighton considers Shad | a member of her family |
| Ellen believes that fate | has marked Jethro |
| As a boy, Bill was considered | peculiar by the people in the area |
| The Burdow family on one of the | least respected families in the county |
| Bill | Jethro's favorite brother |
| 9-year-old Jethro | looks forward to the war |
| Matt Creighton saves the murderer of his own daughter | from an angry lynch mob |
| Ellen is willing | to allow Jenny and Shad to marry before he enlists |
| Ross Milton uses crutches because | he has arthritis |
| North | bad leadership from the start of the war |
| Eb is allowed to return | with only mild punishment |
| Shad does not like | General McClellan |
| Ross accompanies Jenny | to see Shad |
| The vigilante attack is led by | Guy Wortman |
| Shad plans to take Jethro | East with him after the war |
| the town nearest the Creightons | Newton |
| Matt and Ellen took in an orphan named | Eb |
| Jethro's older sister was killed by | Travis Burdow |
| The only cure for Ellen's headaches | coffee |
| Ross Milton wrote | a grammar book |
| Guy Wortman tries to kill Jethro by | stampeding his horses |
| Jethro goes to town and brings Jake Roscoe a | newspaper |
| Guy Wortman accuses Matt of being a | copperhead |
| Matt objects to Jenny's marrying Shad before his enlistment because | she is too young |
| The vigilantes attack the farm, but fail to | kill the livestock |
| The Creightons learn of Tom's death from | Dan Lawrence |
| Jethro withholds from his father the news of Eb's return because | he does not want to add to his father's troubles |
| LIncoln's opponent in his reelection campaign is | General McClellan |
| Tom is killed at | Pittsburg Landing |
| Jethro cannot decide what to do about Eb's desertion, so he appeals for advice to | Abraham LIncoln |
| A large number of deserters gather at | Point Prospect |
| Shad is hospitalized in | Washington,DC |
| The Federal Registrars laugh at Jethro's | backwoods dialect |
| The Union general who brings the war to a successful conclusion | Grant |
| Jethro hears of LIncoln's death from | Nancy |
| setting | Southern Illinois |
| Jethro is how old at the beginning of the novel? | 9 |
| The novel begins in | April 1861 |
| town nearest the Creightons | Newton |
| Ellen had how many children? | 12 |
| Nancy | John's wife |
| Rob Nelson | Mary's boyfriend |
| Travis Burdow | enemy of the Creightons |
| "He's like a man stanin' where two roads meet" | Abe Lincoln |
| "She was brought up by relations that treated her harsh....." | Nancy |
| enjoyed reading and was thought odd | Bill |
| Cousin Wilse Graham was from | Kentucky |
| Defended the South | Bill |
| ended the dinner table "war talk" | Ellen |
| What did Ellen say about watching a loved one leave on a journey? | Not to do it because it is like that it is the last time you will see them |
| What did people do on the weekends? | think about the days of the War of 1812 |
| After the Battle of Bull Run, how does the talk of war change? | They see that the war will not end soon |
| Who first left for the war? | Tom and Eb |
| Who fought Bill? | John |
| Walnut Hill | the family cemetery |
| destiny | fate |
| anxiety | uneasiness |
| somber | sad |
| prosperous | successful |
| attribute | characteristic |
| assailant | attacker |
| prestige | influence |
| quavering | trembling |
| resolve | determination |
| wrath | anger |
| fiasco | failure |
| blithe | merry |
| tumult | commotion |
| perplex | bewilder |
| admonition | warning |
| allusion | reference |
| rebuke | scold |
| baleful | ominous |
| pompous | self-important |
| exhilarated | lively |
| curt | abrupt |
| wistfullly | loningly |
| astute | perceptive |
| tacit | implied |
| plaintive | mournful |
| quagmire | bog |
| fervent | earnest |
| ominous | threatening |
| raucous | rowdy |
| chagrin | disappointment |
| zeal | enthusiasm |
| plaudits | praise |
| sundry | various |
| inept | incompetent |
| plummet | plunge |
| tenacity | persistence |
| travail | hardship |
| fret | worry |
| staunch | loyal |
| reiterate | repeat |
| remorse | guilt |
| arrogant | haughty |
| incoherent | unclear |
| jubilation | joy |
| annals | records |
| belated | tardy |
| affront | insult |
| lament | mourn |
| serenity | peace |
| assuage | lessen |
| Shad rebukes Jethro | for saying "Old Abe" |
| Jenny's age at the beginning of the book | 14 |
