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Support for Abraham Lincoln and his administration was far from unanimous throughout the North. The advent of national conscription in the spring of 1863 inflamed anti-Lincoln Northern Democrats, who argued it was illegal to draft civilians. Many prominent citizens advocated active resistance to conscription. Throughout Pennsylvania there was broad and sustained opposition to the war -- fanned by the pens of Democratic newspaper editors. Though most opposition was disorganized and spontaneous, antiwar sentiment in the state occasionally erupted into major incidents. In The Fishing Creek Confederacy , Richard A. Sauers and Peter Tomasak address the serious opposition to the draft in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in 1864. Egged on by anti-Lincoln newspaper editors, a number of men avoided the draft and formed ad hoc groups to protect themselves from arrest. The shooting of a Union lieutenant confronting draft evaders in July 1864 resulted in military intervention in the northern townships of the county. The troops arrested more than one hundred men, sending about half of them to a fortress near Philadelphia. Some of these men were subjected to military trials in Harrisburg, the s
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- Author
- Richard Allen Sauers; Peter Tomasak; ProQuest (Firm)
- Publisher
- Columbia, Mo. ; London: University of Missouri Press
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780826219886
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (6 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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