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I've never heard of it before. It looks like something that the Sons of
Confederate Veterans would be on top of. I suggest you contact them.
Randy Cabell
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Truslow" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 8:55 AM
Subject: [VA-HIST] Senate Joint Resolution No. 41?
> The quotation below was found in a publication I picked up recently. I
> contacted the Law Library folks at the Library of Congress and they have
> not been able find any such resolution as quoted below. Is anybody
> familiar with it or is it an urban legend?
>
> "On March 2, 1928, Senate Joint Resolution NO. 41 was adopted by Congress
> and entered in the Congressional Record. It reads as follows:A war was
> waged between 1861-1865 between two organized governments: the United
> States of America and the Confederate States of America. These were the
> official titles of the contending parties. It was not a "Civil War" as it
> was not fought between two parties within the same government. It was not
> a War of Secession, for the Southern States seceded without a thought of
> war. The right of a state to secede had never been questioned. It was not
> a War of Rebellion, for sovereign, independent states, co-equal, cannot
> rebel against each other. It was the War Between the States, because 22
> non seceding states made war upon 11 seceding states to force them back
> into the Union of States"
>
> Ed Truslow
> Williamsburg, VA
>
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