This is all I have on the Copperheads,
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ggracie/copperC.html

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Silas Hatcher

Residence was not listed; 45 years old.
Enlisted on 9/13/1861 at Wyoming County, WV as a Private.
On 9/13/1861 he mustered into "B" Co. VA 23rd Battn Infantry
(date and method of discharge not given)
He was listed as:
* On leave 8/24/1863 (place not stated)
* POW 9/19/1864 Winchester, VA
* Confined 9/20/1864 Point Lookout, MD
* Exchanged 3/15/1865 (place not stated)
* Paroled 6/12/1865 (place not stated)

Other Information:
born in Franklin County, VA

Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- The Virginia Regimental Histories Series

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Silas L. Hatcher, Private, Company B, 23rd Battalion Virginia Infantry,* enlisted September 13, 1862 in Wyoming County by
N. C. Beckley for the war, transferred to Beckleys by the end of year, recorded as 2nd Sergeant January 1, 1863, subsequently 3rd Sergeant, 2nd Sergeant October 31, 1863, captured at Winchester, Va. September 19, 1864, sent to Point Lookout, Md. prison Sept. 23, paroled and transferred for exchange to Aiken’s Landing, Va. March 15, 1865, paroled June 12, 1865 at Charleston, West Virginia signing with an ‘X’, his mark, description: age 45, 5’ 9”, black eyes, black hair

* This company formerly served as (2d) Company I, 36th Regiment Virginia Infantry.
The 23d (also known as the 1st, as Hounshell’s and as Derrick’s) Battalion Virginia Infantry was organized January 15, 1862, withe five companies, A to E, and reorganized May 21, 1862. Other companies were added until April 1, 1863 when the battalion consisted of eight companies, A to H.

M324: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Virginia