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Originally Posted by Tribesman
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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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.
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