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Why do the drunken horseback riders call Matt and Bill "Copperheads"?

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

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Posted by jamie-wheeler on June 7, 2007 at 11:47 AM

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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...

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Posted by dymatsuoka on June 7, 2007 at 4:24 PM

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