A. The term was widely used during the conflict, though it came to be particularly associated with the guerrillas of Missouri, where such warfare was most intense. Guerrilla warfare also wracked Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and northern Virginia, among other locations. One of the most vicious actions during the Civil War by the bushwhackers was the Lawrence Massacre.
Pro-Union guerrilla fighters in Kansas were called "jayhawkers". They used tactics similar to the bushwhackers. A typical jayhawker action was a cross border raid into Missouri.
In some areas, particularly the Appalachian regions of Tennessee and North Carolina, the term bushwhacker was used for Union partisans who attacked Confederate forces. During the Gettysburg Campaign, Pennsylvanian civilians at times bushwhacked stragglers from the Army of Northern Virginia.
B. In the first chapter when Jeff is talking about how he wants to go to the war, he seems to want to do it because it is fun or something. I would guess that many young boys at that time thought of war as a fun game. Instead, war brings pain, suffering, heartache, death, and sickness as well as many others. I have a feeling that later in the book, Jeff will change his view on war.
C. Compared to how you meet the Creighton family at the beginning of Across Five Aprils, you do not meet the Bussey family as cleanly. I only know one off Jeff’s relative’s name.
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