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. The Knights of the Golden Circle was a Copperhead secret society. The term was often applied indiscriminately to all Democrats who opposed the administration. It afforded an opportunity for impugning the loyalty of those who opposed Lincoln's policies, either military or civil (e.g., the suspension of habeas corpus), and it was not until years after the Civil War that the Democratic party succeeded in living down the association.

See W. Gray, The Hidden Civil War (1942); F. L. Klement, The Copperheads in the Middle West (1960).

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Civil War Gold and Other Lost Treasures: On the Trail of Various Grey Ghosts, Blue Bummers, Bushwhackers, Blockade-Runners, Jayhawkers, Mossbacks, Copperheads, Scalawags, and Honest Citizens and the Hidden Riches They Left behind
Book by W. Craig Gaines; Combined Publishing, 1999
Subjects: Treasure-Trove--United States, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Anecdotes, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Antiquities
...have reopened the case in the 1940s and sent agents into the area. The prevailing theories are that Confederate agents or Copperheads may have ambushed the detachment and stolen the gold, or some of the soldiers killed their comrades to steal the gold...
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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
...defini- tion of the word Copperhead, the meaning of which he...War, the definition of a Copperhead should, he believed, be...supported his contention that Copperheads were sectionalists by na...and his first book, The Copperheads in the Middle West, an expansion...
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The Fight for Peace: A History of Antiwar Movements in America
Book by Ted Gottfried; Twenty-First Century Books, 2006
Subjects: Peace Movements--United States--History
...Union loyalists were known as copperheads, after a common snake...war itself. By 1862 many copperheads were being labeled supporters...subjected to military arrest. Copperhead sentiment flourished in border...well, the government jailed copperheads for opposing emancipation...
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From Rail-Splitter to Icon: Lincoln's Image in Illustrated Periodicals, 1860-1865
Book by Gary L. Bunker; Kent State University Press, 2001
Subjects: Illustrated Periodicals--United States--History--19th Century, Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Caricatures And Cartoons, Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Pictorial Works, Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Relations With Journalists, Press And Politics--United States--History--19th Century, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Journalists, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Press Coverage, United States--Politics And Government--1861-1865
...among those laced with Copperhead inclinations or sympathy...phalanx against the Copperheads. Phunny Phellow was...sarcastically featured a Great Copperhead Orator foaming at the...the strongest anti-Copperhead messages, A Hint to...the cartoon, put the Copperheads on the defensive with...
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Lincoln-Lore: Lincoln in the Popular Mind
Book by Ray B. Browne; Popular Press, 1974
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham--1809-1865--Anecdotes
...thou sayest, so it is true; but the Copperheads are a stiffnecked and a proud people...generation poisoned with the blood of the Copperheads? Verily no! Unto you of the Loyal...blacks, and would ye share it with Copperheads? Not if the court understand herself...
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Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
Journal article by Cheryl A. Wells; The Historian, Vol. 72, 2010
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews
...distressed public joined the Copperheads in agitating for peace...acknowledge openly the Copperhead threat and to confront...McClellan and the Copperheads appeared destined for...fell silent, and the Copperhead threat permanently...resulting from the Copperheads rise to power. In...
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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
...claims that the Copperheads and their conspiracies...resistance into the Copperhead movement, and...Were all these men Copperheads? Were they thinking...widespread nature of Copperhead dissent, Weber...violence against Copperhead civilians "was...the view of the Copperheads that Lincoln enjoyed...
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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
...handful of high-profile Copperheads during the Civil War...what is the value of Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Woods...greatest weakness of Copperhead Gore. While the biography...pacifist, and for the Copperheads that simply was not...and republicanism. Copperhead Gore thus offers a...
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"Our Cause Is a Common One": Home Guards, Union Leagues, and Republican Citizenship in Illinois, 1861-1863
Journal article by Thomas Bahde; Civil War History, Vol. 56, 2010
Subjects: Civil war--Military aspects, Governors--Military aspects, University of Oxford
...14.) Frank Klement, "Copperhead Secret Societies in Illinois...Klement, Dark Lanterns and The Copperheads in the Middle West (Chicago...the popular view that the Copperhead secret societies were ideologically...Civil War: The Story of the Copperheads (New York: Viking, 1942...
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Dupes and Demagogues: Caroline Krout's Narrative of Civil War Disloyalty
Journal article by Thomas E. Rodgers; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999
Subjects: Indiana--History, Krout, Caroline--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Republican Party--Portrayals, depictions, etc., United States history--Civil War, 1861-1865, Women authors--20th century
...to the size and scope of Copperhead conspiracies. Men of passion...passionate nature of the Copperheads linked them to the secessionists...many puppets on strings. Copperheads and secessionists, then...Robert H. Abzug, "The Copperheads: Historical Approaches to...
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Moyra Davey: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Magazine article by Johanna Burton; Artforum International, Vol. 47, November 2008
Subjects: Artistic photography--Exhibitions, Davey, Moyra (artists)--Exhibitions, Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions
...intimate and dispassionately arid. "Copperheads," Khaki-man had probably said aloud...Daveys work attends. Indeed, while Copperheads, 1990-92, the earliest work on view...of the unruly "dollar" amassed in Copperheads is not only due to having images congeal...
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For Goodness Snakes: Treating and Preventing Venomous Bites
Magazine article by John Henkel; FDA Consumer, Vol. 29, November 1995
Subjects: Antivenins--Health aspects, Bites (Injuries)--Care and treatment, Bites and stings--Care and treatment, Poisonous snakes, Poisonous snakes--Venom, Snake venom, Stings (Injuries)--Care and treatment
...of the family Crotalidae, which include rattlesnakes, copperheads and cottonmouths (water moccasins). Pit vipers get their...neurotoxic venom that can affect the brain or spinal cord. Copperheads, on the other hand, have a milder and less dangerous venom...
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Just Deserters
Magazine article by Corinne Zeman; Humanities, Vol. 32, September 2011
Subjects: Civil war, Murders & murder attempts
...secret societies. Some suspected that the Pennsylvanian Copperheads - men who opposed the policies of the Lincoln administration...of 1864, the federal government took a hard line against Copperheads, dispatching marshals to capture deserters. But, as they...
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"The War That Never Goes Away"
Magazine article by James M. McPherson; Humanities, Vol. 21, March 2000
Subjects: American Civil War, Historians, McPherson, James M
...Democrats or, more pejoratively, the Copperheads. Northern Republicans likened them to the poisonous copperhead snake that struck in the dark to undermine...war and preserve the nation. These Copperheads or Peace Democrats were not necessarily...
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After the Revival
Magazine article by Jordan Smith; The Antioch Review, Vol. 68, Summer 2010
Subjects: After the Revival (Poetry collection)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...here but grow / long and mean, to meet each day / like a belly meets gravel ..." ("In an Indiana County Thick with Copperheads"). To do this as convincingly as Jewell does takes a voice in which sheer skill holds the road just this side of a wreck...
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The Presidential Race; 2004 Copperheads Resemble Those of 1864
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 25, 2003
The presidential race; 2004 Copperheads resemble those of 1864. Byline: Charles G. Kels, SPECIAL...Like the antiwar Democrats of 1864, whom Lincoln labeled "Copperheads" due to their poisonous effect on morale, Mr. Bushs political...
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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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Fiery Plans Fizzled: Were Saboteurs Sabotaged
Newspaper article by Brent Hughes; The Washington Times, May 31, 1997
...controlled by anti-war Democrats called "Copperheads," who kept the 700,000 inhabitants...had broken out in July 1863, and the Copperheads made elaborate plans to take over the...to set fires on Election Day." The Copperheads took notice and were further upset when...
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Mad Call of the Wild
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), October 24, 2010
...included not only the handling of poisonous snakes (usually copperheads and rattlesnakes) in their services, but also drinking...substitutes did not have the same dramatic effect as the copperheads and rattlesnakes. Also, there were legal implications in...
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A Disorderly and Miscalculated Life
Newspaper article; Wales On Sunday (Cardiff, Wales), November 7, 2010
...include not only the handling of poisonous snakes (usually copperheads and rattlesnakes) in their services, but also drinking...substitutes did not have the same dramatic effect as the copperheads and rattlesnakes. Also there were legal implications in...
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Copperhead
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COPPERHEAD poisonous snake, Ancistrodon...the water moccasin, the copperhead is a member of the pit...a pale copper color. Copperheads inhabit rocky areas with...young are born alive. Copperheads are not aggressive and...
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Copperheads
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
COPPERHEADS in the American Civil War, a reproachful...The Knights of the Golden Circle was a Copperhead secret society. The term was often...War (1942); F. L. Klement, The Copperheads in the Middle West (1960...
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Vallandigham, Clement Laird
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...gam , 1820 71, American political leader, leader of the Copperheads in the Civil War, b. New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Ohio...of the Golden Circle ), he was the most prominent of the Copperheads. After the war he was an unsuccessful aspirant to Congress...
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Knights of the Golden Circle
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the North during the Civil War. Its members were known as Copperheads . Dr. George W. L. Bickley, a Virginian who had moved...Liberty, with Clement L. Vallandigham , most prominent of the Copperheads, as its supreme commander. Only a minority of its membership...
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Republican Party
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...these postwar elections, the party, always supported by the Grand Army of the Republic , denounced all Democrats as former Copperheads and claimed to have alone saved the Union. But "waving the bloody shirt," as this type of propaganda was styled, was...
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