Thomas Hines
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Thomas Henry Hines was a Confederate cavalryman who was known for his espionage activities during the last two years of the American Civil War.
Thomas Hines
Gravestone of Thomas Hines
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Copperhead (politics)
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In the 1860s, the Peace Democrats, also known as Copperheads, were a faction of the Democratic Party in the North who opposed the American Civil War and wanted an immediate peace settlement with the C
Thomas Hines
…unleash total war behind Union lines. From a secret base at Toronto in Upper Canada, Hines oversaw Confederate Secret Service covert operations with Copperhead Democrat leaders Harrison H. Dodd and Clement Vallandigham for arson, state terrorism, guerrilla warfare, and pro-Confederate regime change uprisings by the…
The Eastern copperhead snake is venomous and has coloration well-adapted for camouflage
Copperhead pamphlet from 1864 by Charles Chauncey Burr, a magazine editor from New York City
Clement Vallandigham, leader of the Copperheads, coined the slogan: "To maintain the Constitution as it is, and to restore the Union as it was."
"The Copperhead Party—in Favor of a Vigorous Prosecution of Peace!", cartoon by Thomas Nast, in the Harper's Weekly, February 28, 1863