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        <title><![CDATA[what shocked jethro on the bridge over the creek]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[what shocked jethro on the bridge over the creek]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Write short note on the argument about war at the table in Chapter 2.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Write short note on the argument about war at the table in Chapter 2.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:45:46 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[
This dialect was said some miserable people left a note saying...]]></title>
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This dialect was said some miserable people left a note saying “Theres trubel fer fokes that stands up fer there reb lovin sons”. It was said by Matt Creighton after he had been unconscious.

 

First of all he is talking about the Civil War which occurred from 1861 to 1865. What he is trying to say is that the reach of war destruction is great and it affects not only the people directly involved but everybody. The result of war is not...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:09:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Across Five Aprils - Grammargator Guide]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[During Chapter 6 and 7, the first misfortune that the Creightons have...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[During Chapter 6 and 7, the first misfortune that the Creightons have during the spring of 1862 was that their barn was set alight on fire and was burning down by the locals who were angry that Tom had betrayed his country and helped the South during the war. The next misfortune was that Tom was shot and killed instantly during war when he and Danny were watching boats with reinforcements.
This two tragedies have a sudden impact on Jethro as...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:34:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain the criticism of President Lincoln and how did Jethro feel about...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain the criticism of President Lincoln and how did Jethro feel about it?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 21:04:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Matt grants Jennys wish to be married to shadrach Yale.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Matt grants Jennys wish to be married to shadrach Yale.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 18:47:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The victory at Fort Henry, followed quickly by a second at Fort...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The victory at Fort Henry, followed quickly by a second at Fort Donelson, were the first for the Union in the war.  After suffering defeat in the opening battles at Bull Run, Ball's Bluff, and Wilson's Creek, the people "went wild with joy".  Although thoughtful men like Matt Creighton realized that the war, once begun, would be long and grueling, the general public, swept up in the heady euphoria of the North's first decisive victories,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 22:40:53 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Ross Milton warns Jeth, "Don't expect peace to be a perfect pearl",...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Ross Milton warns Jeth, "Don't expect peace to be a perfect pearl", he is telling the youth not to expect that, with the ceasing of hostilities, the idyllic world he remembers will be restored.  Milton is a realist, and he understands that the tasks of reconciliation and reconstruction after five years of bloodshed will be enormous.  He says,

"This is a land lying in destruction, physical, and spiritual.  If the twisted railroads and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 18:49:43 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Presidential Election of 1864 was notable for the vehemence of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Presidential Election of 1864 was notable for the vehemence of public opinion on both sides.  Abraham Lincoln, who was running for reelection for the Republican Party, had, in the months before the election, issued

"a proclamation of amnesty, in which he promised pardon and full rights to any individual Confederate who would swear to protect the Constitution...(and) to abide by the government's pronouncements against slavery...he...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 13:15:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When word comes that "the terms of peace had been signed by two tired...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When word comes that "the terms of peace had been signed by two tired men somewhere in Virginia at a place called Appomattox Court House", the Union can finally celebrate.  Many people flock to town, where "bunting (is) spread out by the yard, flags (fly) from almost every house, a long unused cannon boom(s) from the cliffs above the river".  Prisoners in the county are allowed a brief reprieve "so their voices might add to the clamor...men...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 08:32:11 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jethro is working out in the fields when he hears about Lincoln's...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Jethro is working out in the fields when he hears about Lincoln's assassination.  He is still basking in the glow of the news of the long-awaited cease-fire, and when he thinks back on the moment, he remembers "a sunlit field and a sense of serenity and happiness such as he had not known since early childhood".  He stops his team when he sees Nancy running towards him, and is stunned when she embraces him and sobs against his shoulder that...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 21:01:29 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Explain the celebration of victory in Chapter 12 of Across Five Aprils...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Explain the celebration of victory in Chapter 12 of Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:26:14 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does Jethro get the news of Lincoln's assassination in Chapter 12 of...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does Jethro get the news of Lincoln's assassination in Chapter 12 of Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 19:18:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Three of John's letters are actually recounted in Chapter 11.  In the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Three of John's letters are actually recounted in Chapter 11.  In the first, which arrives sometime during the fall or early winter of 1863, John tells about the infamous Battle of Chickamauga and its aftermath.  Outnumbered by the Confederates "by as many as twenty thousand", the Army of the Cumberland had suffered a terrible defeat, but the defeat was not complete, as the left wing of the Army held out to regroup and fight another day. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 14:55:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What did John write in a letter to Nancy in Chapter 11 of Across Five...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What did John write in a letter to Nancy in Chapter 11 of Across Five Aprils?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 10:01:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Ed Turner's young son Sammy is in South Carolina.  The war is coming to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ed Turner's young son Sammy is in South Carolina.  The war is coming to an end, and in the South, Union soldiers, led by the likes of William Sherman and others, are running wild, looting and burning everything in their path.  Ed's son has written about "the burning of Columbia, of how the soldiers laughed as a great wind fanned the flames, of the loot carried off...of intimate family treasures scattered by the wind by men who seemed to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 23:28:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Matt Creighton first grants his daughter Jenny permission to travel to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Matt Creighton first grants his daughter Jenny permission to travel to Washington to be by the side of her beau, Shadrach Yale, who has been critically wounded in the Battle of Gettysburg.  He later gives her permission to be married to Shadrach.
Jenny and Shadrach are separated when Shadrach goes to fight for the North during the Civil War.  Shadrach had asked Matt Creighton if he and Jenny could be married before he left, but Matt had...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 22:30:51 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Shadrach Yale is critically injured at the Battle of Gettysburg.
The...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Shadrach Yale is critically injured at the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Battle of Gettysburg occurred during "three hot July days" in 1863.  It was "a battle of unbelievable bravery and unbelievable ruthlessness"; an incomplete but decisive Union victory, but one that came with a tremendous cost.  Shadrach Yale was a part of that battle, and one of the casualties on the Union side.  He was brought from Gettysburg to a hospital in Washington...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 18:55:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Matt grants Jenny permission to do what in Across Five Aprils?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Matt grants Jenny permission to do what in Across Five Aprils?]]></description>
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