Peace Democrats but there enemies called them copperheads
They were the anti-war branch of the Democratic party. If the Democrats had won the 1864 General Election, it is well possible that the Copperheads would have been able to call off the war.
Workingclass men
They were called Copperheads.
Many Copperheads were also War Democrats that by 1862 believed that the war was simply not going well enough to support it. With the encouragement of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, the Copperheads were most active in the Midwestern states. There they operated by running Democrats for public offices, obstructing the Union's various draft acts , to outright plans for overt acts of rebellion. The latter never took place but were a threat to Republican power.
Didn't like the way Lincoln was running it. Some of these people were called copperheads.
copperheads were mid westerners that sympathized with the south and opposed abolition
copperheads were mid westerners that sympathized with the south and opposed abolition
Anti-war Democrats
Butternuts
The Copperheads were the anti-war Democrats.
Copperheads
Copperheads (Anti-war Democrats)
Anti-war Democrats ("Copperheads")
They were referred to as Copperheads.
They were called Copperheads.
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