COPPERHEAD

poisonous snake, Ancistrodon contortrix, of the E United States. Like its close relative, the water moccasin, the copperhead is a member of the pit viper family and detects its warm-blooded prey by means of a heat-sensitive organ behind the nostril. The body, which may reach a length of 4 ft (120 cm), is hazel brown with chestnut-colored crossbands above and pinkish white with dark spots below. The head is a pale copper color. Copperheads inhabit rocky areas with thick underbrush, even in heavily populated regions. They feed chiefly on small mammals, but will also capture large insects, frogs, and other snakes. They are most active in late afternoon and early evening. The young are born alive. Copperheads are not aggressive and usually attempt escape when threatened, but they strike swiftly if startled or attacked. The bite causes severe pain and illness in humans but is seldom fatal. Copperheads are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Reptilia, order Squamata, family Crotalidae.

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books on: Copperhead  - 776 results

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The Limits of Dissent: Clement L. Vallandigham and the Civil War
Book by Frank L. Klement; Fordham University Press, 1998
Subjects: Copperhead Movement, Dissenters--United States--Biography, Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Adversaries, Politicians--Ohio--Biography, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Protest Movements, Vallandigham, Clement L--(Clement Laird)--1820-1871
...4. Politicians-Ohio- Biography. 5. Copperhead movement. 6. Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865-Adversaries...among the Canadian thistles The Copperhead Party-In Favor of a Vigorous Prosecution...of humor into his lectures about the Copperheads, Klement saw it as no laughing matter...
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Hanging out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online
Book by Lori Kendall; University of California Press, 2002
Subjects: Internet--Social Aspects, Interpersonal Relations, Masculinity, Men--Identity, Multi-User Dungeons--Social Aspects, Social Interaction
...bolster my confidence, I chose a name, Copperhead, whose aggressive and poisonous connotations...assistance to other participants. Copperhead turns her screen _away_ from the corridor. Faust laughs Copperhead prepares to type WHO if necessary...
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Confederate Agent: A Discovery in History
Book by James D. Horan; Crown Publishers, 1954
Subjects: Secret Service--Confederate States Of America
...III. Fires of the Copperheads 15...VIII. The Fox and the Copperheads 84...commander of some secret project, with the Copperheads as its core. Two definitive books on...
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Longer Plays by Modern Authors
Includes: Beau Brummell; The Copperhea; Dulcy; The Intimate Strangers
Book by Helen Louise Cohen; Harcourt Brace & Company, 1922
Subjects: American Drama, American Drama--History And Criticism
...Dulcy and Beau Brummell . The Copperhead is here printed for the first time...since the eighteenth century. The Copperhead , though of more recent date than...of the last century. In theme, The Copperhead is aligned with plays on kindred subjects...
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Lincoln and the Press
Book by Robert S. Harper; McGraw-Hill, 1951
Subjects: American Newspapers--History, Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865
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journal articles on: Copperhead  - 52 results

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Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America
Journal article by Jennifer Weber; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America (Book)--Book reviews
Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Woods Fort Lafayette and Civil War America. by Jennifer Weber Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Woods Fort Lafayette and Civil War America...York City. Wood was one of a handful of high-profile Copperheads during the Civil War. These were Democrats who opposed...
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Proscribed Preachers, New Churches; Civil Wars in the Illinois Protestant Churches during the Civil War
Journal article by Bryon C. Andreasen; Civil War History, Vol. 44, 1998
Subjects: Civil war--Religious aspects, Protestants--History, United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865
...formed new churches--derisively dubbed "Copperhead Christianity" by Republicans.(4) What...give it direction. The story of these Copperhead Christians should cause historians to...and illuminate the experience of many Copperhead Christians.(5) Flack was twenty years...
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Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
Journal article by Michael D. Pierson; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 74, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North (Book)--Book reviews
Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincolns Opponents in the North. by Michael D. Pierson Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincolns Opponents in the North...530668-2.) Jennifer L. Weber is convinced that the Copperheads, "the conservative, antiwar wing of the Democratic Party...
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Rewriting Trollope and Yonge: Mrs. Oliphant's Phoebe Junior and the Realism Wars
Journal article by Joseph H. O'Mealy; Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 39, 1997
Subjects: Literature--History And Criticism, Philology
...Harding in The Warden ; Clarence Copperhead, the large, unintellectual son of a...volatile, with both Reginald and Copperhead in love with Phoebe, and Northcote...to the church, and Phoebe chooses Copperhead over Reginald because as the wife of...
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The Publishing History of Augusta Jane Evans's Confederate Novel Macaria: Unwriting Some Lost Cause Myths
Journal article by Melissa J. Homestead; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 58, 2005
Subjects: Book publishing--History, Derby, J.C.--Works, Evans, Augusta Jane--Works, Macaria (Novel)--History, Memoirs, Publishers (Persons)--Works, Social novels--History, Women authors--Works, Women writers--Works
...the so-called "Peace Democrats" and "Copperheads") who wanted to see the war end immediately...immediately. A reviewer in a New York Copperhead newspaper, the Day-Book Caucasian, understood...war-related lists included everything from Copperhead pamphlets attacking Lincoln and defending...
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What's New
Magazine article by Candace Golanski, Suzanne Kantra Kirschner; Popular Science, Vol. 250, May 1997
Subjects: Inventions, Technology
Whats New by Candace Golanski , Suzanne Kantra Kirschner THE DODGE COPPERHEAD is one venomous snake that wont take a serious bite out of your bank account. This two-seat concept roadster has the fast looks...
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Trisha Yearwood
Magazine article by Dennis Hensley; The Advocate, August 30, 2005
Subjects: Lesbians--Behavior, Lesbians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Women musicians--Behavior, Women musicians--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Yearwood, Trisha--Behavior, Yearwood, Trisha--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes
...Yearwood welcomes her GLBT fans to Jasper County, her new CO due out September 13. But right now were talking snakes. "I have a copperhead problem," laments the country-superstar singer of "The Song Remembers When" and "How Do I Live," calling from the Oklahoma...
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Death-House Troubadour: Steve Earle Rocks 'N' Rants against Capital Punishment
Magazine article by David Corn; The Nation, Vol. 265, August 25, 1997
Subjects: Capital punishment, Earle, Steve--Social policy, Sound recordings
...Dwight Yoakam. In 1988, the title track of Earles third album, Copperhead Road, was a hit--more rock than country--and he was hailed...concedes that the hundreds of thousands of people who snatched up Copperhead Road would be shocked by his politics. But his hard-core audience...
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The Private Lives of Pit Vipers
Magazine article by Michael Lipske; National Wildlife, Vol. 33, August 1995
Subjects: Snakes--Behavior
...vipers range from Asias green tree vipers to North Americas copperhead and Latin Americas bushmaster, which is the worlds largest...Costa Rica to Uganda, yet has been nipped only once, by a copperhead he handled in high school. "I was holding the snake improperly...
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Democrats Usher in an Age of Treason; the Democratic Party and Its Operatives Have Launched an All-Out Assault to Destroy a Wartime President by Manipulating Rules of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Magazine article by J. Michael Waller; Insight on the News, December 22, 2003
Subjects: Bush, George W.--Military policy, Dissenters, Dissenters--Political activity, Military policy, Military policy--Investigations, Military policy--Political aspects, Political parties, Political parties--Ethical aspects, Treason, Treason--Analysis, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence--Investigations, War and emergency powers, War and emergency powers--Investigations
...mulling the question of such arrests and their applicability today. He studied the case of Rep. Lambdin P. Milligan (D-Ind.), a Copperhead who had tried, in solidarity with the Confederacy, to discourage enlistments after Lincoln called for raising troops in 1862...
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Hiker Bitten by Copperhead
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 27, 2009
Subjects: Hiking, Poisonous snakes
Hiker Bitten by Copperhead. Byline: Phil Collins pcollins@dailyherald.com Alex Rieger...in Tennessee. But he bothered what turned out to be a poisonous copperhead when he picked it up, held it and got a picture in before it bit...
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Tampa Course Is a Bit on the Wild Side
Newspaper article by Alan B. Nichols; The Washington Times, March 30, 1997
...and I were playing the second hole of Copperhead, the signature course at Innisbrook...others, Hilton Head in South Carolina. Copperhead, Innisbrooks best layout in my opinion...resort courses by Golf Digest magazine, Copperhead winds through tall pines and has no...
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Lake Zurich Hiker Bitten by Snake
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 27, 2009
Subjects: Hiking, Snakes
...Appalachian Trail. But he bothered what turned out to be a poisonous copperhead when he picked it up, held it and got a picture in before...According to the Tennessee Herpetological Society, deaths from a copperhead snakeAEs bite are rare and the snakes are usually shy, but...
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Not the Souvenir He Wanted: Hiker Bitten by Snake
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), June 27, 2009
Subjects: Hiking, Snakes
...Appalachian Trail. But he bothered what turned out to be a poisonous copperhead when he picked it up, held it and got a picture in before...According to the Tennessee Herpetological Society, deaths from a copperhead snakeAEs bite are rare and the snakes are usually shy, but...
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Singers Travel Musical Odyssey
Newspaper article by Jay Votel; The Washington Times, April 7, 2001
...nanny while he toured after the release of his seminal 1988 "Copperhead Road" album. She then wrote commercial songs for a Nashville...have to say," she says. "I dont think I could have written `Copperhead Road." But she says brother Steve is "a heavy-duty critic...
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encyclopedia articles on: Copperhead  - 12 results

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Copperhead
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COPPERHEAD poisonous snake, Ancistrodon contortrix, of the...States. Like its close relative, the water moccasin, the copperhead is a member of the pit viper family and detects its...with dark spots below. The head is a pale copper color. Copperheads inhabit rocky areas with thick underbrush, even in heavily...
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Water Moccasin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...highly venomous snake , Ancistrodon piscivorus, of the swamps and bayous of the S United States. Like the closely related copperhead, it is a pit viper and has a heat-sensitive organ for detecting warm-blooded prey. The young are born live. The young snake...
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Copperheads
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COPPERHEADS in the American Civil War, a reproachful term for...their leader. The Knights of the Golden Circle was a Copperhead secret society. The term was often applied indiscriminately...The Hidden Civil War (1942); F. L. Klement, The Copperheads in the Middle West (1960). ____________________ Copyright...
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Milligan, Ex Parte
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...persons for offenses against the armed services. Army authorities had arrested Lambdin Milligan, a civilian who was involved in Copperhead, or pro-Confederate, activities in Indiana, and in 1864 he was tried by a military commission, convicted of fomenting rebellion...
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Thompson, Jacob
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...served in the Confederate army, and in 1864 he became a Confederate agent in Canada. There he tried unsuccessfully to persuade Copperhead elements in the North to take up arms against the Union. Falsely accused of complicity in President Lincolns assassination...
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