"If you chance to see any of the 'Copperhead stripe' who desire to know what we think of their 'Peace Convention' and 'Compromise Resolutions,' please tell them we would rather meet them with arms in their hands in the rebel ranks, than to hear of their traitorous and cowardly efforts to stab us in the back."--portion of an unsigned letter dated Mar. 23, 1863, from a Private in the 80th Ind., Evansville Journal newspaper, Evansville, Ind.