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Description: Broadside satirizing the "Copperheads" (Peace Democrats) by listing the activities to occur at a fictitious July 4th celebration sponsored by the group at Marietta, Ohio, in 1863. Copperheads or Peace Democrats were people who opposed the Union's attempts to reunite the nation during the American Civil War. During the American Civil War, a majority of Ohioans supported the war effort and the Republican Party, although there was a sizable minority who opposed the conflict. Many of the opponents of the war were members of the "Peace" section of the Democratic Party. They and other opponents of the war often came to be called "Copperheads." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04230
Subjects: Marietta (Ohio); Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Political parties; Civil War 1861-1865
Places: Marietta (Ohio); Washington County (Ohio)