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    Confederates. Republicans started labeling anti-war Democrats "Copperheads" after the eastern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix), a species of venomous snake...
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  • Look up copperhead in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Copperhead may refer to: Agkistrodon contortrix, or eastern copperhead, a venomous pit viper species...
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  • Demon Copperhead is a 2022 novel by Barbara Kingsolver. It was a co-recipient of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and won the 2023 Women's Prize for...
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  • Copperhead Road is the third studio album by Steve Earle, released in 1988. The album is often referred to as Earle's first "rock record"; Earle himself...
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    sentiment would remain alive in Southern Illinois amid the growing Copperhead political movement in the North. During the Civil War, 256,297 people from...
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    Fifth column (category Deep politics)
    a pro- Nazi "fifth column". Alien infiltration Black propaganda Copperhead (politics) Demographic threat Entryism False flag Front organization Internal...
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    Clement Vallandigham (category Copperheads (politics))
    was an American lawyer and politician who served as the leader of the Copperhead faction of anti-war Democrats during the American Civil War. He served...
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    perceived as practicing appeasement of Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union. Copperhead (politics) Origins of the American Civil War Vintage Vocabulary, accessed 22...
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    Operation Copperhead was a small military deception operation run by the British during the Second World War. It formed part of Operation Bodyguard, the...
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    George H. Pendleton (category Copperheads (politics))
    Representatives. During the Civil War, he emerged as a leader of the Copperheads, a group of Democrats who favored peace with the Confederacy. After the...
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    Carter Harrison Sr. (category Copperheads (politics))
    sympathy towards the Confederate cause, leading him to be derided as a Copperhead. Harrison saw the city's strength as being in its neighborhoods, and viewed...
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    Daniel W. Voorhees (category Copperheads (politics))
    1877 to 1897. He was the leader of the Democratic Party and an anti-war Copperhead during the American Civil War. Voorhees was born in Liberty Township,...
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    Peter V. Deuster (category Copperheads (politics))
    During the American Civil War, Deuster was widely reviled as a prominent Copperhead, as he opposed the abolitionist influence on the Lincoln administration...
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    Jesse D. Bright (category Copperheads (politics))
    state to be expelled for being a Confederate sympathizer. As a leading Copperhead he opposed the Civil War. He was frequently in competition with Governor...
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    2023, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead. Her work often focuses on topics such as social justice, biodiversity...
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  • Copperhead is a 2013 drama film directed by Ron Maxwell and starring Billy Campbell, Angus Macfadyen, Augustus Prew, Lucy Boynton, Casey Thomas Brown,...
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    Edwin Stanton (category Union (American Civil War) political leaders)
    Democrat Clement Vallandigham, was well known among Republicans for his Copperhead politics, and disliked by Stanton. Believing that Democratic victory at any...
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    The Copperhead is a 1920 American silent historical drama film based on a novel by Frederick Landis and a 1918 play by Augustus Thomas. The star of this...
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  • Charles Chauncey Burr (category Copperheads (politics))
    he changed sides completely - during the American Civil War he was a Copperhead. The first issue of The Old Guard contains a lengthy invective by Burr...
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    Fernando Wood (category Copperheads (politics))
    one of many New York Democrats sympathetic to the Confederacy, called 'Copperheads' by the staunch Unionists. In 1860, at a meeting to choose New York's...
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    Benjamin Wood (American politician) (category Copperheads (politics))
    of Ellen Walsh came to light. Congressional bio Menahem Blondheim, ed. Copperhead Gore: Benjamin Wood's Fort Lafayette and Civil War America. Bloomington:...
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    break the Union in 1861, as well as to their northern allies, called "Copperheads". Demographic trends boosted the Democratic totals, as the German and...
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  • Bourbon Democrats, traditional Democrats in the North (many of them former Copperheads), and Catholic immigrants. As the party of states' rights, post-Civil...
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  • War Democrat (category American Civil War political groups)
    in American politics of the 1860s were members of the Democratic Party who supported the Union and rejected the policies of the Copperheads (or Peace Democrats)...
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    Alexander Long (category Copperheads (politics))
    1863, to March 3, 1865. During the Civil War, Long was a prominent "Copperhead", a member of the peace movement of the Democratic Party, and he was identified...
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    Thomas F. Bayard (category Copperheads (politics))
    Great Britain. Born in Delaware to a prominent family, Bayard learned politics from his father James A. Bayard Jr., who also served in the Senate. In...
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  • Arthur W. Austin (category Copperheads (politics))
    stanch Democrat and a Confederate sympathizer. He defended slavery as a "political necessity". William Gilmore Simms and his children visited Austin at his...
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  • John Hodgson (Pennsylvania politician) (category Copperheads (politics))
    paper until 1865. During the Civil War, The Jeffersonian was known as a Copperhead newspaper, supporting the anti-war movement and slavery. At one point...
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    Lewis Winans Ross (category Copperheads (politics))
    Arapaho Indians. Ross' political views during the Civil War generally corresponded to those of the antiwar Peace Democrats or Copperheads. He was a close personal...
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    James Brooks (politician) (category Copperheads (politics))
    recognized throughout the North as outspoken leaders in the anti-war Copperhead movement. Brooks was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-eighth Congress...
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