A good Civil War read

While doing research for the new book, I found Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt. The book centers around a family and ten year old boy in Jasper County, Illinois during the Civil War. In the beginning of the story, Jethro Creighton lives on an Illinois farm just before the war. He has always been a hard worker, and he is busily tending his family's farm. However, when his schoolmaster and good friend, Shadrach Yale, returns from town with the news that the war has begun, Jethro’s world is turned upside-down. The novel is classified as a young adult, but I would highly recommend it to any Civil War buff; especially anyone from downstate Illinois.

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Rick