Across Five Aprils
Describe how Jethro feels both anger and sympathy for Jake Roscoe. Chapter 5
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On his way, Jethro passes by houses and barns until he meets an old man three miles south of Rose Hill. The man named Roscoe asks Jethro questions about the battle site and the generals who led the fights. He wants Jethro to get him a newspaper from Newton. His grandson, a Union soldier named Jake Roscoe, served during the Pea Ridge battle, and he wants to know what happened to him. Jethro feels badly for him.