Copperhead: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Peace Democrat
Date	1861 - 1865
Areas Of Involvement	peace movement
Related People	Clement L. Vallandigham • Fernando Wood

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Clement L. Vallandigham (centre) with other Copperhead leaders.

Cartoon about Copperhead policy, published in Harper's Weekly, October 1864.

Black and white political cartoon by Thomas Nast showing a donkey labeled Copperhead Papers kicking a sleeping lion labeled Hon. E. M. Stanton, with trees and the U.S. Capitol in the background.

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