{|Billy Campbell|}, {|Angus Macfadyen|}, and {|Peter Fonda|} star in this Civil War drama adapted from Harold Frederic's novel The Copperhead, and directed by {|Ronald F. Maxwell|} ({|Gettysburg|}, {|Gods and Generals|}). Set in the fall of 1862, the story details the hardships endured by an upstate New York farmer branded a "Copperhead" by his government and his neighbors for believing that the war was futile, and advocating that the Northern states negotiate a peace treaty with the South.
