http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2009/08/21/review-copperheads-the-rise-and-fall-of-lincolns-opponents-in-the-north/ Informed Amateurs Blog the American Civil War Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:41:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/2009/08/21/review-copperheads-the-rise-and-fall-of-lincolns-opponents-in-the-north/comment-page-1/#comment-5552 Fred Ray Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:40:26 +0000 http://www.brettschulte.net/CWBlog/?p=7140#comment-5552 One major problem with the Copperheads is that almost nothing written by them survives. No one wrote postwar histories of the movement, which just faded away. Thus it's very hard to evaluate things like plans to free Confederate prisoners and burn Union property. Were these real plans or just the fevered imagining of the authorities? No one really knows. Previous histories have pretty much dismissed the Copperheads as a minor annoyance, but Weber treats them with the respect I think they deserve. One major problem with the Copperheads is that almost nothing written by them survives. No one wrote postwar histories of the movement, which just faded away. Thus it’s very hard to evaluate things like plans to free Confederate prisoners and burn Union property. Were these real plans or just the fevered imagining of the authorities? No one really knows. Previous histories have pretty much dismissed the Copperheads as a minor annoyance, but Weber treats them with the respect I think they deserve.

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