Across Five Aprils

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   jamie-wheeler Teacher
   College - Sophomore

   "Copperheads" was the derogatory slang term for a Northern person with Southern, anti-Union sympathies

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   Posted by jamie-wheeler on Thursday June 7, 2007 at 7:47 PM
   
   

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   dymatsuoka

   From the Union state of Illinois, young Bill Creighton makes the difficult decision to go and fight for the Confederacy, despite the fact that his brothers are fighting for the Union. Father Matt Creighton will not condemn him. The drunken horsemen leave a message in Chapter 6, emphasizing their feelings towards Northerners with Southern sympathies, those they call "Copperheads" - "Theres trubel fer fokes that stands up fer there reb loving sons."

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   Posted by dymatsuoka on Friday June 8, 2007 at 12:24 AM