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At the Democratic convention of 1864, where the influence of Peace Democrats reached its high point, Vallandigham persuaded the party to adopt a platform branding the war a failure, and some extreme Copperheads plotted armed uprisings. ... Source: "Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil War" Edited by Patricia L. Faust...
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A Copperhead was a term for Northern opponents of the American Civil War. ... Named for the poisonous snake which gives no warning before it strikes, Copperheads were Northerners who opposed the American Civil War. Considered traitors by others in the North, they favored immediate peace with the Confederacy.
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Copperheads, in the American Civil War, a reproachful term for those Northerners sympathetic to the South, mostly Democrats outspoken in their opposition to the Lincoln administration. They were especially strong in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio, where Clement L. Vallandigham was their leader.
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lv. 358 The Democratic party..was long discredited by..the opposition of a considerable section within it (the so-called Copperheads) to the prosecution of the war. (American Civil War: Letters and Diaries database);
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Historians have been divided in their treatments of the Copperheads. Some have portrayed the Copperheads as willful obstructionists and conspirators, much as their detractors had during the Civil War.
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Copperheads were part of a radical element of the Democratic Party during the Civil War. ... Copperheads were part of a radical element of the Democratic Party during the Civil War. The year before the Civil War actually erupted at Fort Sumter, the secession crisis was lead by some ... Return From Copperheads to Civil War...
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Copperheads "Peace Democrats ... In the North the Democrats divided into two factions- the War Democrats and the Peace Democrats. Neither group agreed with the way the Republican administration conducted the war, but the War Democrats at least supported the fight for the Union.
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Politics – Civil War & the Copperheads ... Ever heard of the Copperheads? They were generally a group of Democrats during the Civil War who lived in the northern states but who held southern sympathies. Nationally, La Crosse’s own Marcus “Brick” Pomeroy was the most notorious.
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This original Civil War Harper's Weekly has a article describing Copperheads ... Welcome to our online archive of Civil War Harper's Weekly newspapers. We have created this online resource to help facilitate a more in depth understanding of this important period in ... If Mr. Vallandigham, or any of his fellow-copperheads,
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