Copperhead (2013)

Directors

Ronald F. Maxwell

Cast

Angus Macfadyen, Augustus Prew, Billy Campbell, Brian Downey, François Arnaud, Lucy Boynton, Peter Fonda, Ryan Doucette

The story

Set in 1862 in a rural upstate New York community referred to as "The Corners", Abner Beech is a dairy farmer and an antiwar Democrat, sharing quarters with the Irish Hurley family. While his neighbors take up the Union cause in the ongoing American Civil War, Beech believes that coercion in resisting the secession of the southern states is unconstitutional and not worth risking the lives of so many young men, gradually becomes more and more harassed for his views, derisively called a "Copperhead." Abner's son, Thomas Jefferson "Jeff" Beech enlists in the Union Army to impress a girl he likes, Esther Hagadorn, the daughter of radical…

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