Copperheads?

[THE PILGRIM]

That fried pie thread got me to thinking about way back when.
I don’t think I ever had any Blueberries until I crossed that River of Demarkation.
I was up in Southern Ohio, working for Houston Contracting and we were doubling up the Big Inch.
One day a mad blueberry farmer shows up with a shotgun and threatens to shoot us all!
Not everybody wanted to shoot us!
Most of those those South Ohio folks seemed to like us Southerners.
They told me that a lot of them descended from Copperheads.
I thought I was a pretty good Civil War Student but I didn’t know what they were talking about.
Have you ever heard that term?

 

[DWalt]

Copperheads were anti-war northern Democrats who wanted to make peace with the Confederacy, I guess you could call them Southern sympathizers. There were lots of them in Ohio, especially southern Ohio in the Ohio-Kentucky-Western Virginia (now West Virginia) area along the Ohio River, which is where I came from.

Cincinnati was notable for having a concentration of Copperheads. They were blamed for various activities which could have been called sabotage, including an 1862 fire at the Miles Greenwood foundry which was a major supplier of armaments for the North (including Gatling Guns).

 

[UncleEd]

Notable copperhead newspapers included the New York World
and the Chicago Times.

Editorials of the day often were quite inflammatory.

Looking at the internet I see one Wisconsin
editor called for a dagger to be stuck in Lincoln's heart.