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Below are sentences or phrases in which the vocabulary words are contained within the text of Chapter 8 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.
- Antietam had been the baptismal battle for the young schoolteacher
- Young Tom had helped to clinch Kentucky to the side of the Union at Donelson; now Jethro read with a heavy heart that General Bragg was boasting of his intention to set up a Confederate governor of Kentucky
- I tell you frankly that the contagion of their devotion has not yet gripped me
- Faith in the leaders was at its lowest ebb, criticism of the President poured in from all sides, armies were demoralized, and desertion began
- Thousands of young men had become disillusioned
- but that he was finally dissuaded by officers of lower rank and keener perception
- Jethro had picked up a mannerism from his mother. He closed his eyes briefly, as if to hide from the world the exasperation with which the man’s words struck him
- The family waited for days, during which Jethro’s waking thoughts were filled with foreboding and his dreams with troubled anxiety
- Antietam was over -- a name for future history books, a battle at which men in later years, blessed with hindsight, would wonder. Jethro, in his manhood, would learn of the incompetence, the blindness, and the ghastly waste of life that followed a lost opportunity
- The men resent those of us who have not known him long
- they revile the President when rumors of his impatience with their general get around
- He does not have the cold approach to killing, the singleness of purpose, the brutal tenacity, that the winner of this war -- if there ever is to be one -- must have
- Everyone was discouraged, and it looked as if the war might never be won; as if, indeed, the country that had been born in the travail of the Revolution and had been given direction during the days of 1787
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