This thought is expressed well throughout the film. The president responds in a letter which guides him some, but more or less provides him with comfort when a nine year old is in the midst of war, what is more important? The central idea of this film, I believe, is to show how devastatingly a civil war can strike a family. He writes Abraham Lincoln for advice on the matter. Should he fight for the Yankees, the Rebs, or just continue working on the farm? He has a cousin who is a deserter which he helps with food and a blanket this is a crime not taken lightly. This makes things difficult when his kin fights for the Union Army, as well as the Rebel cause. Helping his father farm is all he really knows. Jethro Creighton (Todd Duffey) is a young man of nine years from Southern Illinois who is growing up during the outbreak of the American Civil War. In this film director Kevin Meyer puts Irene Hunt's book Across Five Aprils to the big screen.
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