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This 4-page paper discusses the role of the Northern "copperheads" in the War Between the States (the U.S. Civil War). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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population of the North was all for the war, and all supported Lincoln in his efforts to subjugate the South. The opposite, in fact, was true. Among the opponents in
the North were the copperheads, a group of Northerners who opposed the war and suggested that peace and negotiation would be the way to bring both sides together. Though the
copperheads were not necessarily a majority in terms of their numbers, they did make a lot of noise, and in some cases, actually hurt morale and the war effort. For
example, whenever there seemed to be any lack of progress in the North for the war, the copperheads regularly ran editorials in Democratic newspapers, calling for an end to the
hostilities, because such hostilities yielded nothing but failure (McPherson 761). "Copperhead" itself was an epithet originally directed toward Northern members of the
Democratic party and who were also known as "Peace Democrats" (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The goal of the copperheads were to seek truce with the Confederacy, and to reach this goal,
this group regularly criticized Lincolns administration for its war policy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). This is not to say the copperheads actively supported secession, but they all had objections to what
the Lincoln administration was doing to the Confederacy (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The reason why the copperheads were formed were economic (some states,
such as Illinois, suffered gravely when their Southern markets were cut off) and political differences - again, Illinois was not in total agreement of the war, if it could be
won, or even if it should have been fought (Archaimbault and Barnhart). The question as to whether the copperheads were actually a
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