gsrunyan wrote:
It is NOT "the war between the States!!" That is a southerner"s attempt to perpetuate the idea that states were individual entities that could secede from the Constitution they signed.
The official government name is "The War of the Rebellion," and documents from that period in the Library of Congress are titled that way.
Overtime, the "Civil War" has become the accepted neutral title of that event.
Glenn
Oh it is "The War Between the States". And that terminology is widely accepted as well. A civil war is an internal strife or conflict. The War Between the States was a war between two separate countries two different entities, not a "civil" war. The southern or Confederate states had every legal right to secede from the United States. That has been argued to death and is "settled science" as you lefties like to say. An emotional issue I know and you may think differently or feel differently but you would be wrong.