What war hit close to home with the people of jasper county and why across five aprils

The story opens in mid-April 1861, and spans the Civil War years across five Aprils to April 1865 when the war ended and Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and most people in southern Illinois supported the Union cause, but there were some who secretly favored the South. Though they did not support slavery, the people were geographically and emotionally “southern folks.”

C

"the deceased and himself had been twins”

Explanation:

took one for the team