Northwestern Confederacy trial exposes Whiting as copperhead
The Monona County affidavits recount Judge Charles Whiting’s wartime sympathy for the South and advocacy of a Northwestern Confederacy. Witnesses describe bitter anti Union rhetoric, calls to form a western alliance, and alleged joy at Lincoln’s assassination, shaping accusations in his gubernatorial bid.
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Knight OF the Golden Circle
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9Th District
J. E. Morrison
West
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Middle States
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Philadelphia
New England
Copperhead
Mr. Whiting
S Smilar
E. Whiting
Iowa
Woodbury
Confederacy
Monona
Judge Criss
Sac City
C. E. Whiting
Northwestern
Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
William Whiting
Charles
Senator Whiting
State of Iowa
I. F. D. Jones
Lincoln Township
Charles F. Whiting
C. E Whiting
C. BE. Whiting
C. B. Whiting
D. Jones
Whiting Attacks Union Soldiers and Leaders
Local reports recount Mr. Whiting’s harsh denunciations of the Government and the Civil War’s leaders. He allegedly called Union troops “Butcher Grant” and “Lincoln’s hirelings,” and allegedly wished that no Union soldier who went south in the abolition war would return alive.
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Sioux City
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Quawa
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Fillmore
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Andrew Johnson
Kent Grant
Texas Pacific Railroad Company
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Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Union and
Central Pacific Railway
Union
Mr. Fillmore
Iowa
Texas Pacific Railroad Co
Don Quixote
Republican Party
Hendricks
Randall
Democratic Party
Treasury
Grover Mevelach
Philliptes
House of Representatives
Whiting Deemed Copperhead Opponent by Iowa Critics
A Iowa political tract accuses Judge C. E. Whiting of Monona County of opposing labor, supporting free trade and cheap coal, and lobbying for railroads. It brands him a monopolist and Copperhead, cites a Des Moines residency, tax abatements, and a 1864 proclamation against Copperhead exodus to Nebraska, ending with a broader critique of Democratic leadership and policy.
Whiting accused of bounty grab in Monona County records
An 1874 Monona County Gazette exposé accuses C E Whiting of pocketing 200 in public bounty funds while a county supervisor. It details diversion of bounty money to drafted volunteers or substitutes, notes he was drafted, defended as an anti Monopolist figure, and recalls his 1864 Fort Dodge trek with a substitute amid harsh language and disloyalty claims.
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Whiting
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Monona County
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Confederacy
New England
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Libby
Belle Isle
Andersonville
North
Richmond
Mr. Whiting
Iowa
St. Edward
Linccoln
Govefforts
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Nebraska
Epward Winegar
Mr. Winegar
Fort Dodge
Waterloo
Winegar
Onawa
J. Will Sudduth
Lake Township
The
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Des Moines
Judge Whiting
Haaman
Mary Ann
Goddess of the Wheel
Charles E. Whiting
United States
C. BE. Whiting
Reform
C. F E. Whiting
Co. &. Whiting
H. L. Erskine
C. EK. Whiting
Iowa Copperhead Exodus During Civil War Draft
The story recounts 1864 Copperhead treason in Iowa led by Mr Whiting, urging rebels to flee to Nebraska. As drafts closed in, Copperheads crossed the Missouri into Nebraska seeking safety in the western prairie amid mounting treason fears.
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