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| copperheads u.s. history: Copperheads Jennifer L. Weber, 2008 Disgraced after the war, the Copperheads melted into the shadows of history. Here, Jennifer L. Weber illuminates their story.--Jacket. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Contested Loyalty Robert M. Sandow, 2018-06-05 Embroiled in the Civil War, northerners wrote and spoke with frequency about the subject of loyalty. The word was common in newspaper articles, political pamphlets, and speeches, appeared on flags, broadsides, and prints, was written into diaries and letters and the stationary they appeared on, and even found its way into sermons. Its ubiquity suggests that loyalty was an important concept...but what did it mean to those who used it? Contested Loyalty examines the significance of loyalty across fault lines of gender, social class, and education, race and ethnicity, and political or religious affiliation. These differing vantage points reveal the complicated ways in which loyalties were defined, prioritized, acted upon, and related. While most of the scholarly work on Civil War Era nationalism has focused on southern identity and Confederate nationhood, the essays in Contested Loyalty examine the variable, fluid constructions of these concepts in the north. Essays explore the limitations and incomplete nature of national loyalty and how disparate groups struggled to control its meaning. The authors move beyond the narrow partisan debate over Democratic dissent to examine other challenges to and competing interpretations of national loyalty. Today’s leading and emerging scholars examine loyalty through: the frame of politics at the state and national level; the viewpoints of college educated men as well as the women they courted; the attitudes of northern Protestant churches on issues of patriotism and loyalty; working class men and women in military industries; how employers could use the language of loyalty to take away the rights of workers; and the meaning of loyalty in contexts of race and ethnicity. The Union cause was a powerful ideology committing millions of citizens, in the ranks and at home, to a long and bloody war. But loyalty to the Union cause imperfectly explains how citizens reacted to the traumas of war or the ways in which conflicting loyalties played out in everyday life. The essays in this collection point us down the path of greater understanding. |
| copperheads u.s. history: A Patriot's History of the United States Larry Schweikart, Michael Patrick Allen, 2004-12-29 For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements of “dead white men.” As a result, more emphasis is placed on Harriet Tubman than on George Washington; more about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II than about D-Day or Iwo Jima; more on the dangers we faced from Joseph McCarthy than those we faced from Josef Stalin. A Patriot’s History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases. In this groundbreaking book, America’s discovery, founding, and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements of public virtue, personal liberty, and private property that make this nation uniquely successful. This book offers a long-overdue acknowledgment of America’s true and proud history. |
| copperheads u.s. history: The Damnation of Theron Ware or Illumination Harold Frederic , 1899 |
| copperheads u.s. history: The Oxford Handbook of American Political History Paula Baker, Donald T. Critchlow, 2020-03-06 American political and policy history has revived since the turn of the twenty-first century. After social and cultural history emerged as dominant forces to reveal the importance of class, race, and gender within the United States, the application of this line of work to American politics and policy followed. In addition, social movements, particularly the civil rights and feminism, helped rekindle political and policy history. As a result, a new generation of historians turned their attention to American politics. Their new approach still covers traditional subjects, but more often it combines an interest in the state, politics, and policy with other specialties (urban, labor, social, and race, among others) within the history and social science disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of American Political History incorporates and reflects this renaissance of American political history. It not only provides a chronological framework but also illustrates fundamental political themes and debates about public policy, including party systems, women in politics, political advertising, religion, and more. Chapters on economy, defense, agriculture, immigration, transportation, communication, environment, social welfare, health care, drugs and alcohol, education, and civil rights trace the development and shifts in American policy history. This collection of essays by 29 distinguished scholars offers a comprehensive overview of American politics and policy. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Ex Parte Milligan Reconsidered Stewart L. Winger, Jonathan W. White, 2020-04-16 At the very end of the Civil War, a military court convicted Lambdin P. Milligan and his coconspirators in Indiana of fomenting a general insurrection and sentenced them to hang. On appeal, in Ex parte Milligan the US Supreme Court sided with the conspirators, ruling that it was unconstitutional to try American citizens in military tribunals when civilian courts were open and functioning—as they were in Indiana. Far from being a relic of the Civil War, the landmark 1866 decision has surprising relevance in our day, as this volume makes clear. Cited in four Supreme Court decisions arising from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Ex parte Milligan speaks to constitutional questions raised by the war on terror; but more than that, the authors of Ex parte Milligan Reconsidered contend, the case affords an opportunity to reevaluate the history of wartime civil liberties from the Civil War era to our own. After the Civil War, critics of Reconstruction pointed to Milligan as an example of the Republican Party’s abuse of federal power; even historians sympathetic to Lincoln have found it necessary to apologize for his administration’s record on civil liberties during the Civil War. However, the authors of this volume argue that this distorts the nineteenth-century understanding of the Bill of Rights, neglects international law entirely, and, equally striking, ignores the experience of African Americans. In reviving Milligan, the Supreme Court has implicitly cast Reconstruction as a “war on terror” in which terrorist insurgencies threatened and eventually halted the assertion of black freedom by the Republican Party, the Union Army, and African Americans themselves. Returning African Americans to the center of the story, and recognizing that Lincoln and Republicans were often forced to restrict white civil liberties in order to establish black civil rights and liberties, Ex parte Milligan Reconsidered suggests an entirely different account of wartime civil liberties, one with profound implications for US racial history and constitutional law in today’s war on terror. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Knights of the Golden Circle David C. Keehn, 2013-04-15 In 1860, during their first attempt to create the Golden Circle, several thousand Knights assembled in southern Texas to colonize the northern Mexico. Due to insufficient resources and organizational shortfalls, however, that filibuster failed. Later, the Knights shifted their focus and began pushing for disunion, spearheading prosecession rallies, and intimidating Unionists in the South. They appointed regional military commanders from the ranks of the South's major political and military figures, including men such as Elkanah Greer of Texas, Paul J. Semmes of Georgia, Robert C. Tyler of Maryland, and Virginius D. Groner of Virginia. Followers also established allies with the South's rabidly prosecession fire-eaters, which included individuals such as Barnwell Rhett, Louis Wigfall, Henry Wise, and William Yancy. |
| copperheads u.s. history: The Cacophony of Politics J. Matthew Gallman, 2021-11-09 The Cacophony of Politics charts the trajectory of the Democratic Party as the party of opposition in the North during the Civil War. A comprehensive overview, this book reveals the myriad complications and contingencies of political life in the Northern states and explains the objectives of the nearly half of eligible Northern voters who cast a ballot against Abraham Lincoln in 1864. The party’s famous slogan The Union as it was, the Constitution as it is was meant to have broad appeal and promote solidarity among Northern Democrats by invoking their core ideological commitments to nationalism, law and order, tradition, and strict construction. But, as J. Matthew Gallman shows, the slogan was a poor reflection of the volatile, fluid, messy, and improvisational reality of political life for men and women, across the public and private spheres. Democrats experienced the war as a cascading series of dilemmas, for which their slogan did not always offer guidance or resolution. Offering a definitive account of the Democratic Party in the North, The Cacophony of Politics shows the limits of ideology and the ways the Civil War—and the nature of nineteenth-century political culture—confounded the Democrats’ self-image and exacerbated their divisions, especially over the central issue of slavery. A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era |
| copperheads u.s. history: Tried by War James M. McPherson, 2008-10-07 James M. McPherson’s Tried by War is a perfect primer . . . for anyone who wishes to understand the evolution of the president’s role as commander in chief. Few historians write as well as McPherson, and none evoke the sound of battle with greater clarity. —The New York Times Book Review The Pulitzer Prize–winning author reveals how Lincoln won the Civil War and invented the role of commander in chief as we know it As we celebrate the bicentennial of Lincoln's birth, this study by preeminent, bestselling Civil War historian James M. McPherson provides a rare, fresh take on one of the most enigmatic figures in American history. Tried by War offers a revelatory (and timely) portrait of leadership during the greatest crisis our nation has ever endured. Suspenseful and inspiring, this is the story of how Lincoln, with almost no previous military experience before entering the White House, assumed the powers associated with the role of commander in chief, and through his strategic insight and will to fight changed the course of the war and saved the Union. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Copperhead Bernard Cornwell, 2009-10-13 Nate, a Yankee-turned-Confederate, finds his loyalties tested at the Battle of Ball's Bluff, 1862 It is the summer of 1862 and the Northern army is threatening to capture Richmond, the Confederate capital. Bloodied but victorious at the battles of Ball's Bluff and Seven Pines, Nate suddenly finds himself accused of being a Yankee spy. Proving his innocence and finding the real spy will require courage and endurance rarely seen even in the brutal fog of war. Failure could mean the fall of Richmond and a career-ending defeat for Robert E. Lee. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Reelecting Lincoln John Waugh, 2009-04-30 Here, from the author of the acclaimed book The Class of 1846, is the dramatic story of what may have been the most critical election campaign in American history. Taking place in the midst of the Civil War, the election of 1864 would determine the very future of the nation. Would the country be unified or permanently divided? Would slavery continue? Weaving rich anecdotal material into a fast-paced narrative, John C. Waugh places this pivotal election in its historical context while evoking its human drama. The men and women who figured in this epic campaign—most notably Lincoln himself—emerge with all their strengths, weaknesses, and idiosyncrasies. It's an inherently dramatic story, and one that has been told before. But never quite so well as by John C. Waugh, [who] brings to his task the keen eye for detail and scene-setting that one would expect from a career reporter, said the Wall Street Journal. Drawing on an extensive array of sources, including published and unpublished reminiscences, memoirs, autobiographies, letters, newspapers, and periodicals, Waugh re-creates that fateful year with all the immediacy of a political reporter covering a national presidential election today. |
| copperheads u.s. history: A House Divided Richard Orr Curry, 2010-11-23 In A House Divided, Richard Orr Curry investigates the political realities that led to the breakup of the Old Dominion and the emergence of a new state during the Civil War. Orr's analysis of the intra-state conflicts over political, economic, and social issues, party factions of Unionism and Secessionism and multiple layers of division within those factions, offer fascinating and original insights into the long debate that would lead to the ratification of the West Virginia state constitution in 1863. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Lincoln's Last Months William C. Harris, 2009-07-01 Lincoln Prize winner William C. Harris turns to the last months of Abraham Lincoln's life in an attempt to penetrate this central figure of the Civil War, and arguably America's greatest president. Beginning with the presidential campaign of 1864 and ending with his shocking assassination, Lincoln's ability to master the daunting affairs of state during the final nine months of his life proved critical to his apotheosis as savior and saint of the nation. In the fall of 1864, an exhausted president pursued the seemingly intractable end of the Civil War. After four years at the helm, Lincoln was struggling to save his presidency in an election that he almost lost because of military stalemate and his commitment to restore the Union without slavery. Lincoln's victory in the election not only ensured the success of his agenda but led to his transformation from a cautious, often hesitant president into a distinguished statesman. He moved quickly to defuse destructive partisan divisions and to secure the adoption of the Thirteenth Amendment. And he skillfully advanced peace terms that did not involve the unconditional surrender of Confederate armies. Throughout this period of great trials, he managed to resist political pressure from Democrats and radical Republicans and from those seeking patronage and profit. By expanding the context of Lincoln's last months beyond the battlefield, Harris shows how the events of 1864-65 tested the president's life and leadership and how he ultimately emerged victorious, and became Father Abraham to a nation. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Tarnished Victory William Marvel, 2011 A critical look at the the fourth year of Lincoln's administration and the conclusion of the author's four-volume re-examination of the Civil War. |
| copperheads u.s. history: The Tenement House Act New York (State)., 1903 |
| copperheads u.s. history: Writing the Civil War James M. McPherson, William J. Cooper, Jr., 2000-09-01 Co-edited by the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Battle Cry of Freedom, a collection of essays by fourteen distinguished historians discusses the ongoing effort to chronicle the Civil War and trends in Civil War scholarship. History Alt. UP. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Copperhead Vol. 3 Jay Faerber, 2017-08-30 A man from Sheriff Clara Bronson's past shows up in Copperhead, complicating her efforts to solve the bizarre murder of Copperhead's mayor. Meanwhile, Deputy Boo is made an offer he canÍt refuse. Collects COPPERHEAD #11-14 |
| copperheads u.s. history: Race and Reunion David W. BLIGHT, 2009-06-30 No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion. |
| copperheads u.s. history: The War Worth Fighting Stephen D. Engle, 2015-05-12 This volume of original essays, featuring an all-star lineup of Civil War and Lincoln scholars, is aimed at general readers and students eager to learn more about the most current interpretations of the period and the man at the center of its history. The contributors examine how Lincoln actively and consciously managed the war—diplomatically, militarily, and in the realm of what we might now call public relations—and in doing so, reshaped and redefined the fundamental role of the president. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Fourteen Months in American Bastiles Frank Key HOWARD, 1863 |
| copperheads u.s. history: A People's History of the Civil War David Williams, 2011-05-10 “Does for the Civil War period what Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States did for the study of American history in general.” —Library Journal Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people—foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others. Richly illustrated with little-known anecdotes and firsthand testimony, this path-breaking narrative moves beyond presidents and generals to tell a new and powerful story about America’s most destructive conflict. A People’s History of the Civil War is a “readable social history” that “sheds fascinating light” on this crucial period. In so doing, it recovers the long-overlooked perspectives and forgotten voices of one of the defining chapters of American history (Publishers Weekly). “Meticulously researched and persuasively argued.” —The Atlanta Journal-Constitution |
| copperheads u.s. history: The Radical and the Republican: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, and the Triumph of Antislavery Politics James Oakes, 2011-02-07 A great American tale told with a deft historical eye, painstaking analysis, and a supple clarity of writing.”—Jean Baker “My husband considered you a dear friend,” Mary Todd Lincoln wrote to Frederick Douglass in the weeks after Lincoln’s assassination. The frontier lawyer and the former slave, the cautious politician and the fiery reformer, the President and the most famous black man in America—their lives traced different paths that finally met in the bloody landscape of secession, Civil War, and emancipation. Opponents at first, they gradually became allies, each influenced by and attracted to the other. Their three meetings in the White House signaled a profound shift in the direction of the Civil War, and in the fate of the United States. James Oakes has written a masterful narrative history, bringing two iconic figures to life and shedding new light on the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Letters of a Civil War Nurse Cornelia Hancock, 2022-01-13 She was called The Florence Nightingale of America. From the fighting at Gettysburg to the capture of Richmond, this young Quaker nurse worked tirelessly to relieve the suffering of soldiers. She was one of the great heroines of the Union. Cornelia Hancock served in field and evacuating hospitals, in a contraband camp, and (defying authority) on the battlefield. Her letters to family members are witty, unsentimental, and full of indignation about the neglect of wounded soldiers and black refugees. Hancock was fiercely devoted to the welfare of the privates who had nothing before them but hard marching, poor fare, and terrible fighting. |
| copperheads u.s. history: The Texanist David Courtney, Jack Unruh, 2017-04-25 A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?--Amazon.com. |
| copperheads u.s. history: The Cause of All Nations Don H Doyle, 2014-12-30 When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance -- that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model of democracy, would indeed perish from the earth. In The Cause of All Nations, distinguished historian Don H. Doyle explains that the Civil War was viewed abroad as part of a much larger struggle for democracy that spanned the Atlantic Ocean, and had begun with the American and French Revolutions. While battles raged at Bull Run, Antietam, and Gettysburg, a parallel contest took place abroad, both in the marbled courts of power and in the public square. Foreign observers held widely divergent views on the war -- from radicals such as Karl Marx and Giuseppe Garibaldi who called on the North to fight for liberty and equality, to aristocratic monarchists, who hoped that the collapse of the Union would strike a death blow against democratic movements on both sides of the Atlantic. Nowhere were these monarchist dreams more ominous than in Mexico, where Napoleon III sought to implement his Grand Design for a Latin Catholic empire that would thwart the spread of Anglo-Saxon democracy and use the Confederacy as a buffer state. Hoping to capitalize on public sympathies abroad, both the Union and the Confederacy sent diplomats and special agents overseas: the South to seek recognition and support, and the North to keep European powers from interfering. Confederate agents appealed to those conservative elements who wanted the South to serve as a bulwark against radical egalitarianism. Lincoln and his Union agents overseas learned to appeal to many foreigners by embracing emancipation and casting the Union as the embattled defender of universal republican ideals, the last best hope of earth. A bold account of the international dimensions of America's defining conflict, The Cause of All Nations frames the Civil War as a pivotal moment in a global struggle that would decide the survival of democracy. |
| copperheads u.s. history: The Pioneers David McCullough, 2019-05-07 The #1 New York Times bestseller by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important chapter in the American story that’s “as resonant today as ever” (The Wall Street Journal)—the settling of the Northwest Territory by courageous pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would define our country. As part of the Treaty of Paris, in which Great Britain recognized the new United States of America, Britain ceded the land that comprised the immense Northwest Territory, a wilderness empire northwest of the Ohio River containing the future states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler was instrumental in opening this vast territory to veterans of the Revolutionary War and their families for settlement. Included in the Northwest Ordinance were three remarkable conditions: freedom of religion, free universal education, and most importantly, the prohibition of slavery. In 1788 the first band of pioneers set out from New England for the Northwest Territory under the leadership of Revolutionary War veteran General Rufus Putnam. They settled in what is now Marietta on the banks of the Ohio River. McCullough tells the story through five major characters: Cutler and Putnam; Cutler’s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationship with the native people. Like so many of McCullough’s subjects, they let no obstacle deter or defeat them. Drawn in great part from a rare and all-but-unknown collection of diaries and letters by the key figures, The Pioneers is a uniquely American story of people whose ambition and courage led them to remarkable accomplishments. This is a revelatory and quintessentially American story, written with David McCullough’s signature narrative energy. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Oliver P. Morton and the Politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction A. James Fuller, 2017 Introduction: interpreting the great war governor and reconstruction senator -- A native son -- A rising republican star -- The election of 1860 -- The war governor -- One-man rule -- Copperheads, treason, and the election of 1864 -- Peace and paralysis -- Waving the bloody shirt -- A radical champion for African Americans -- Stalwart Republican -- The election of 1876 and the end of an era -- Morton and the politics of memory |
| copperheads u.s. history: "The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known" Paul Taylor, 2018 This book in the Civil War in the North series examines the Union League movement and its influence on the Northern home front in the Civil War.--Provided by publisher. |
| copperheads u.s. history: The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom James M. McPherson, 2003-12-11 Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that crowded the two decades from the outbreak of one war in Mexico to the ending of another at Appomattox. Packed with drama and analytical insight, the book vividly recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War--the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry--and then moves into a masterful chronicle of the war itself--the battles, the strategic maneuvering on both sides, the politics, and the personalities. Particularly notable are McPherson's new views on such matters as the slavery expansion issue in the 1850s, the origins of the Republican Party, the causes of secession, internal dissent and anti-war opposition in the North and the South, and the reasons for the Union's victory. The book's title refers to the sentiments that informed both the Northern and Southern views of the conflict: the South seceded in the name of that freedom of self-determination and self-government for which their fathers had fought in 1776, while the North stood fast in defense of the Union founded by those fathers as the bulwark of American liberty. Eventually, the North had to grapple with the underlying cause of the war--slavery--and adopt a policy of emancipation as a second war aim. This new birth of freedom, as Lincoln called it, constitutes the proudest legacy of America's bloodiest conflict. This authoritative volume makes sense of that vast and confusing second American Revolution we call the Civil War, a war that transformed a nation and expanded our heritage of liberty. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968 Boris Heersink, Jeffery A. Jenkins, 2020-03-19 Traces how the Republican Party in the South after Reconstruction transformed from a biracial organization to a mostly all-white one. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Lincoln and the Democrats Mark E. Neely, 2017-02-07 This book explains the behavior of a two-party system during war - emphasizing the Democrats' role in the Civil War. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War Stephen E. Towne, 2014-12-15 Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War represents pathbreaking research on the rise of U.S. Army intelligence operations in the Midwest during the American Civil War and counters long-standing assumptions about Northern politics and society. At the beginning of the rebellion, state governors in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois cooperated with federal law enforcement officials in various attempts—all failed—to investigate reports of secret groups and individuals who opposed the Union war effort. Starting in 1862, army commanders took it upon themselves to initiate investigations of antiwar sentiment in those states. By 1863, several of them had established intelligence operations staffed by hired civilian detectives and by soldiers detailed from their units to chase down deserters and draft dodgers, to maintain surveillance on suspected persons and groups, and to investigate organized resistance to the draft. By 1864, these spies had infiltrated secret organizations that, sometimes in collaboration with Confederate rebels, aimed to subvert the war effort. Stephen E. Towne is the first to thoroughly explore the role and impact of Union spies against Confederate plots in the North. This new analysis invites historians to delve more deeply into the fabric of the Northern wartime experience and reinterpret the period based on broader archival evidence. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Ye Book of Copperheads Charles Godfrey Leland, Henry Perry Leland, 1863 A collection of cartoons and satirical verses. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Ohio’s War Christine Dee, 2014-06-20 In 1860, Ohio was among the most influential states in the nation. As the third-most-populous state and the largest in the middle west, it embraced those elements that were in concert-but also at odds-in American society during the Civil War era. Ohio’s War uses documents from that vibrant and tumultuous time to reveal how Ohio’s soldiers and civilians experienced the Civil War. It examines Ohio’s role in the sectional crises of the 1850s, its contribution to the Union war effort, and the war’s impact on the state itself. In doing so, it provides insights into the war’s meaning for northern society. Ohio’s War introduces some of those soldiers who left their farms, shops, and forges to fight for the Union. It documents the stories of Ohio’s women, who sustained households, organized relief efforts, and supported political candidates. It conveys the struggles and successes of free blacks and former slaves who claimed freedom in Ohio and the distinct wartime experiences of its immigrants. It also includes the voices of Ohioans who differed over emancipation, freedom of speech, the writ of habeas corpus, the draft, and the war’s legacy for American society. From Ohio’s large cities to its farms and hamlets, as the documents in this volume show, the war changed minds and altered lives but left some beliefs and values untouched. Ohio’s War is a documentary history not only of the people of one state, but also of a region and a nation during the pivotal epoch of American history. |
| copperheads u.s. history: The Devil's Own Work Barnet Schecter, 2009-05-26 As Barnet Schecter dramatically shows in The Devil's Own Work, the cataclysm in New York was anything but an isolated incident; rather, it was a microcosm-within the borders of the supposedly loyal northern states-of the larger Civil War between the North and South. The riots erupted over the same polarizing issues--of slavery versus freedom for African Americans and the scope of federal authority over states and individuals--that had torn the nation apart. And the riots' aftermath foreshadowed the compromises that would bedevil Reconstruction and delay the process of integration for the next 100 years. The story of the draft riots come alive in the voices of passionate newspaper rivals Horace Greeley and Manton Marble; black leader Rev. Henry Highland Garnet and renegade Democrat Fernando Wood; Irish soldier Peter Welsh and conservative diarist Maria Daly; and many others. In chronicling this violent demonstration over the balance between centralized power and civil liberties in a time of national emergency, The Devil's Own Work (Walt Whitman's characterization of the riots) sheds new light on the Civil War era and on the history of protest and reform in America. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Abraham Africanus I The Copperheads, Mike Rothmiller, 2015-10-03 This is a true and accurate copy of the original historic pamphlet. It has not be edited or altered in any fashion. It may seem bizarre and you may question why it was written and formatted in this fashion. Those are good questions which no one can answer, except to say this was the style of writing in the 1860s and it made perfect sense at the time. In the 1860s there was a group of Democrats mostly in Illinois, who vehemently opposed the civil war and despised President Abraham Lincoln's actions to free the slaves. They were known as the Copperheads. They were against what they claimed was Lincoln's war to prevent secession of the southern states and they were highly distressed at the economic damage the Civil War was causing to the Southern states. They also detested President Lincoln for declaring martial law and suspending habeas corpus. The final blow for many Democrats was Lincoln's Proclamation emancipating the slaves. This exceedingly rare pamphlet printed and distributed by Democrats in an effort to damage President Abraham Lincoln; depicts him making a contract with the Devil to be anointed the King of the United States. This pamphlet provides a rare opportunity to read and understand cutting political satire at a time when the country was being reduced to bloody fragments and faced the very real possibility of disintegrating the Union. Today, the vast majority do not realize that Lincoln was a Republican and the forces who desired to maintain slavery were the primarily southern Democrats. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Forced Into Glory Lerone Bennett, 2007 Beginning with the argument that the Emancipation Proclamation did not actually free African American slaves, this dissenting view of Lincoln's greatness surveys the president's policies, speeches, and private utterances and concludes that he had little real interest in abolition. Pointing to Lincoln's support for the fugitive slave laws, his friendship with slave-owning senator Henry Clay, and conversations in which he entertained the idea of deporting slaves in order to create an all-white nation, the book, concludes that the president was a racist at heart--and that the tragedies of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era were the legacy of his shallow moral vision. |
| copperheads u.s. history: American Military History Volume 1 Army Center of Military History, 2016-06-05 American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009. |
| copperheads u.s. history: The Western Press in the Crucible of the American Civil War Mary Cronin, Debra van Tuyll, 2021 Mary M. Cronin, Debra Reddin van Tuyll, and Bill Huntzicker: Introduction: Land. Lots of Land. And Newspapers, Too: Westward Migration and the Creation of Western Journalism - Debra Reddin van Tuyll: By the Numbers: Facts and Figures of Western Editors and Their Newspapers - Mary M. Cronin: “Give Us the War News!”: News Gathering, Distribution, and Audiences - Glen Feighery and David J. Vergobbi: Press Roles and Functions: Community Building in the West - Erika J. Pribanic- Smith: No 'Cliques or Factions': Politics, Partisanship and the Press in the West - Crompton Burton: “Stirring Times”: The Coming of the American Civil War in the Western Press - Mary M. Cronin: Acts of Disloyalty: Legal and Extralegal Restrictions on the Far Western Press in Wartime - Hubert van Tuyll: A Distant and Bloody Mirror: The Western Press and the Fighting - Jennifer E. Moore: From Sea to Shining Sea: Domestic and International News from the Plains to the Ocean - Katrina Quinn: “Words are Not Sufficient”: The Western Press Reports the End of the War and the Death of Lincoln - Mary M. Cronin and Debra Reddin van Tuyll: Epilogue: In the Final Analysis: A Region of High- Risk Opportunity - Index. |
| copperheads u.s. history: Indiana Legends Nelson Price, 1997 Complete with over 140 illustrations in this book of vignettes and full portraits of Indiana's most memorable figures. Price has conducted interviews with famous Hoosiers including Jane Pauley, John Mellencamp, Florence Henderson, Kurt Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield, and many more. |
Lincoln and the Copperheads: The War for the North
These Copperheads have aptly been described by Lincoln as the “fire in the rear” that undermined his war effort.1 The Copperheads used antiwar, anti-Lincoln, and nearly treasonous rhetoric to …
COPPERHEADS UCGA – Vol XX – No. 3 – Fall 1995
Copperheads, a name applied during the Civil War to members of the Democratic Party in the Northern states who violently opposed the prosecution of the war. They were also known as …
Chapter 16
•Copperheads were northern Democrats who began speaking against the war. •Many were midwesterners who sympathized with the South and opposed abolition. •Lincoln suspended …
Natural History Series: Copperhead - Walter Reeves
Copperheads are not generally aggressive snakes and rarely injure people. They are secretive but valuable members of the wildlife community in Georgia. They range throughout most of …
Copperheads Us History
History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases In this groundbreaking book America s discovery founding and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements …
The Copperheads: Historical Approaches to Civil War Dissent …
The Copperheads: Historical Approaches to Civil War Dissent in the Midwest Robert H. Abzug* In the folklore of American patriotism the word Copperhead has held a special place of scorn. …
The Copperheads: Historical Approaches to Civil War Dissent …
Historians have de- scribed Copperheads variously as advocates of “peace at any price,” those who actively encouraged or participated in draft resistance, or. loyal Democrats victimized by …
Copperheads - Essential Civil War Curriculum
Copperheads, or Peace Democrats, opposed the Civil War because they believed it was unjustified and being waged in an unconstitutional manner. Moreover, they came to believe. …
Lincoln's Critics: The Copperheads - JSTOR
The principal dissidents were known as Copperheads, conserva-tive Democrats who harkened back to Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson as ideal presidential role models. The two …
Race, Religion, and Politics, Then and Now: The Copperheads …
II. The Copperheads On January 14, 1863, Rep. Clement Vallandigham of Ohio made a speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives. In part, he recounted, Soon after the war …
Copperheads Us History (Download Only)
History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases In this groundbreaking book America s discovery founding and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements …
THE COPPERHEADS OF IOWA: A RE-EXAMINATION
Dec 21, 2023 · Copperheads had, in common with their Midwestern brethren, an aversion to a stronger federal system and an agrarian distrust of the mushrooming industrialism in the East. …
Copperheads Definition Us History (2024)
American political and policy history has revived since the turn of the twenty first century After social and cultural history emerged as dominant forces to reveal the importance of class race …
Episode 802 - Copperhead Cane - PBS
May 7, 2011 · Spring, 1863: the Union suffers loss after loss – over 17,000 casualties at Chancellorsville alone. The carnage on the battlefield helps galvanize a group of Northerners …
Copperheads Us History (book)
History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases In this groundbreaking book America s discovery founding and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements …
IOWA AND THE COPPERHEAD MOVEMENT - University of Iowa
Understandably, the Cop-perhead viewpoint also found expression in Iowa and tlie story of the Copperheads became a significant part of the state's history. The Copperheads stood in direct …
Copperheads Us History (2024) - archive.ncarb.org
History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases In this groundbreaking book America s discovery founding and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements …
Labor and the Copperheads - JSTOR
LABOR AND THE COPPERHEADS PHILIP S. FONER Labor's contribution during the Civil War at the battlefront and in the rapidly expanding factories of the North is one of the most inspiring …
Copperheads or a Respectable Minority - Open Scholarship
The Copperheads of the Middle West provides the fullest expression of Klement’s views on Democratic disloyalty and the political failure of the Cop- perheads.
SNAKES LURKING IN THE GRASS: LINCOLN AND THE …
Copperheads referenced their greatest argument against the President, the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland. 14. Copperhead propaganda was predominantly centered …
Lincoln and the Copperheads: The War for the North
These Copperheads have aptly been described by Lincoln as the “fire in the rear” that undermined his war effort.1 The Copperheads used antiwar, anti-Lincoln, and nearly treasonous rhetoric to …
COPPERHEADS UCGA – Vol XX – No. 3 – Fall 1995
Copperheads, a name applied during the Civil War to members of the Democratic Party in the Northern states who violently opposed the prosecution of the war. They were also known as …
Chapter 16
•Copperheads were northern Democrats who began speaking against the war. •Many were midwesterners who sympathized with the South and opposed abolition. •Lincoln suspended …
Natural History Series: Copperhead - Walter Reeves
Copperheads are not generally aggressive snakes and rarely injure people. They are secretive but valuable members of the wildlife community in Georgia. They range throughout most of …
Copperheads Us History
History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases In this groundbreaking book America s discovery founding and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements …
The Copperheads: Historical Approaches to Civil War Dissent …
The Copperheads: Historical Approaches to Civil War Dissent in the Midwest Robert H. Abzug* In the folklore of American patriotism the word Copperhead has held a special place of scorn. …
The Copperheads: Historical Approaches to Civil War Dissent …
Historians have de- scribed Copperheads variously as advocates of “peace at any price,” those who actively encouraged or participated in draft resistance, or. loyal Democrats victimized by …
Copperheads - Essential Civil War Curriculum
Copperheads, or Peace Democrats, opposed the Civil War because they believed it was unjustified and being waged in an unconstitutional manner. Moreover, they came to believe. …
Lincoln's Critics: The Copperheads - JSTOR
The principal dissidents were known as Copperheads, conserva-tive Democrats who harkened back to Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson as ideal presidential role models. The two …
Race, Religion, and Politics, Then and Now: The Copperheads …
II. The Copperheads On January 14, 1863, Rep. Clement Vallandigham of Ohio made a speech on the floor of the US House of Representatives. In part, he recounted, Soon after the war …
Copperheads Us History (Download Only)
History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases In this groundbreaking book America s discovery founding and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements …
THE COPPERHEADS OF IOWA: A RE-EXAMINATION
Dec 21, 2023 · Copperheads had, in common with their Midwestern brethren, an aversion to a stronger federal system and an agrarian distrust of the mushrooming industrialism in the East. …
Copperheads Definition Us History (2024)
American political and policy history has revived since the turn of the twenty first century After social and cultural history emerged as dominant forces to reveal the importance of class race …
Episode 802 - Copperhead Cane - PBS
May 7, 2011 · Spring, 1863: the Union suffers loss after loss – over 17,000 casualties at Chancellorsville alone. The carnage on the battlefield helps galvanize a group of Northerners …
Copperheads Us History (book)
History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases In this groundbreaking book America s discovery founding and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements …
IOWA AND THE COPPERHEAD MOVEMENT - University of Iowa
Understandably, the Cop-perhead viewpoint also found expression in Iowa and tlie story of the Copperheads became a significant part of the state's history. The Copperheads stood in direct …
Copperheads Us History (2024) - archive.ncarb.org
History of the United States corrects those doctrinaire biases In this groundbreaking book America s discovery founding and development are reexamined with an appreciation for the elements …
Labor and the Copperheads - JSTOR
LABOR AND THE COPPERHEADS PHILIP S. FONER Labor's contribution during the Civil War at the battlefront and in the rapidly expanding factories of the North is one of the most inspiring …
Copperheads or a Respectable Minority - Open Scholarship
The Copperheads of the Middle West provides the fullest expression of Klement’s views on Democratic disloyalty and the political failure of the Cop- perheads.
