In Across Five Aprils: 1. How old is Jethro at the beginning? 2. Are most of the people who live around the Creightons for the Union or for the Confederates?

Jethro was nine years old at the beginning of the book 'Across Five Aprils.'

Most of the people around the Creightons were for the Union movement

Explanation:

'Across Five Aprils' is the story of the transition of a young naive boy Jethro Creighton from childhood through teenage years into adulthood. At the beginning of the book, Jethro was nine years old.

He was the last of four children. He had 2 older brothers and one younger sister. His brothers joined forces with the Unions. The aftermaths of the brutal civil war in the US changed his childhood innocence as he learns the realities of life after a war. That is that there are no victors in war