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Originally Posted by Tribesman (Post 1092639)

Copperhead the donkey wasn't representing an anti civil war faction it was representing a confederate faction

Um, wrong again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copperheads

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The Copperheads were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. The name Copperheads was given to them by their opponents, the Republicans, because the venomous, although not usually deadly, copperhead snake can strike without warning (unlike a rattlesnake).

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Um, wrong again.

Not in the slightest , since the political faction was a pro confederate faction, they were only "anti war" because they supported one side in that war .

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Originally Posted by Tribesman (Post 1092874)

Not in the slightest , since the political faction was a pro confederate faction, they were only "anti war" because they supported one side in that war .

Again you are wrong. The Copperheads were not pro-confederate, they were anti-republican in the same way modern day democrats could oppose Bush but not be pro-Al Quaeda.

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During the American Civil War (1861-1865), the Copperheads nominally favored the Union and strongly opposed the war, for which they blamed abolitionists, and they demanded immediate peace and resisted draft laws. They wanted Lincoln and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values with his despotic and arbitrary actions. Some Copperheads tried to persuade Union soldiers to desert. They talked of helping Confederate prisoners of war seize their camps and escape. They sometimes met with Confederate agents and took money. The Confederacy encouraged their activities whenever possible.[1] Most Democratic party leaders, however, repelled Confederate advances.