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Below are sentences or phrases in which the vocabulary words are contained within the text of Chapter 10 of Beyond Five Aprils.
Read each sentence or phrase and see if you can determine the definition by the context in which it is used in the sentence, if you do not already know the meaning of the word.
- “Fighting Joe Hooker” he was called, an arrogant man, highly contemptuous of McClellan and Burnside, of the Confederate Army, and of the possibility of his own defeat
- “I can clench my teeth against pain in a railway car as well as at home”
- The news of the battle was confused at first, incoherent, sometimes contradictory
- he calls for her constantly in his delirium
- And in all these stories came the vague charges of drunkenness on the part of the discredited general
- When a man has looked upon such massive waste of life as I have witnessed in these three battles, the presumption to consider his own little personal dreams becomes a matter of supreme egotism
- The family was always glad to see him; he enlivened for a short time the passing of one monotonous day after another
- there were long paragraphs in which John wanted to know how Nancy was faring, if she was well, how much the little boys had grown, whether or not they remembered their pa
- Vicksburg, perched high on the bluffs of the Mississippi, had a natural fortification that Grant, with his inept stupidity, could not successfully storm any sooner than Joe Hooker could overtake Robert E. Lee
- waiting week after week with an army mired down in disease-infested marshes
- Then there was Chancellorsville, where handsome Joe Hooker folded helplessly before Lee’s onslaught
- Then in the midst of the pandemonium over Gettysburg another Union victory was announced
- There were many speculations
- A letter came addressed to Matt from a spinster aunt of Shadrach’s who lived in Washington
- The stories were never verified, but they occurred often enough to arouse deep anger in the minds of people whose sons had died under Grant’s command
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