![]() ![]() ![]() Tom writes a letter home, saying that being a soldier isn't what he has expected it to be. Grant becomes a familiar name to those who read the papers. ![]() ![]() In 1862, there is a Northern victory in Tennessee, and Ulysses S. One day in October, after saying good-bye to Jethro, Bill leaves home to fight for the South. He does not approve of slavery, but he also does not like another form of slavery in the name of industrialism in the North. Bill who does not talk much seems troubled about the events surrounding the war. In late summer, Tom and Eb leave home to fight in the war, and there is news of another Northern defeat. Shad, the local schoolteacher who is in love with Jenny, goes to Newtown to get the latest news from the papers and returns to inform the family that the Confederate army has fired on Fort Sumter. People are beginning to wonder why the President is so hesitant to declare war. Ellen is worried and sad, but the younger boys, Eb and Tom, are overly eager and confident. There is tension within the family as well as in the community because of the prospect of a war breaking out. The story begins in April of 1861 in southern Illinois during a morning when Ellen and Matt, and their sons are working on the family farm. ![]()
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