| Summary: | Antebellum lawyer and U.S. representative from Ohio. An ardent opponent of President Abraham Lincoln, he was imprisoned during the war and later banished to the Confederacy. Vallandigham was also critical of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, however, and was eventually ejected from the South. During this time, he was an active member of the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secret society of Southern sympathizers who lived in the North. Source: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.
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