The official name is War of the Rebellion.



Mike Peters

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From:         Fern <[log in to unmask]>

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Date:         Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:33:56 

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Subject: War between the 'STATS'



Other historical terms - But whatever they wanted to call it - A CIVIL WAR - it was not.

War Between the States

The term "War Between the States" was rarely used during the war but became prevalent afterward in the South, as part of an effort to perpetuate its interpretation of the war.

The Confederate government avoided the term "civil war" and referred in official documents to the "War between the Confederate States of America and the United States of America". There are a handful of known references during the war to "the war between the states".  European diplomacy produced a similar formula for avoiding the phrase "civil war". Queen Victoria's proclamation of British neutrality referred to "hostilities ... between the Government of the United States of America and certain States styling themselves the Confederate States of America".



After the war, the memoirs of former Confederate officials and veterans (Joseph E. Johnston, Raphael Semmes, and especially Alexander Stephens) commonly used the term "War Between the States". In 1898, the United Confederate Veterans formally endorsed the name. In the early twentieth century, the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) led a campaign to promote the term "War Between the States" in the media and in public schools. UDC efforts to convince the United States Congress to adopt the term, beginning in 1913, were unsuccessful. Congress has never adopted an official name for the war. The name "War Between the States" is inscribed on the USMC War Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery. This name was personally ordered by Lemuel C. Shepherd, Jr., the 20th Commandant of the Marine Corps.



Franklin Delano Roosevelt referred to the Civil War as "the four-year War Between the States".  References to the "War Between the States" appear occasionally in federal and state court documents.



The names "Civil War" and "War Between the States" have been used jointly in some formal contexts. For example, to mark the war's centenary in the 1960s, the state of Georgia created the "Georgia Civil War Centennial Commission Commemorating the War Between the States". In 1994, the U.S. Postal Service issued a series of commemorative stamps entitled "The Civil War / The War Between the States".



War of the Rebellion

During and immediately after the war, U.S. officials and pro-Union writers often referred to Confederates as "Rebels". The earliest histories published in the northern states commonly refer to the Civil War as "the Great Rebellion" or "the War of the Rebellion, as do many war monuments.



The official war records of the United States refer to this war as "The War of the Rebellion", and are a chief source of historical documentation for those interested in Civil War research. They are compiled as a 127-volume collection published by the U.S. War Department under the title The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880-1901, referred to as the Official Records.



War of Secession

War of Secession is occasionally used by people in the South to refer to the Civil War. In most romance languages, the words used to refer literally translate to "War of Secession" (e.g. "Guerre de Sécession" in French, "Guerra de Secesión" in Spanish). This name is also used in Central and Eastern Europe, i.e. "Sezessionskrieg" is commonly used in Germany, and "Wojna Secesyjna" is exclusively used in Poland (both literally translate as "war of secession").



War for Southern Independence

The "War for Southern Independence" is a name used by many Southerners in reference to the war.  While popular on the Confederate side during the war, the term's popularity fell in the immediate aftermath of the South's failure to gain independence. The term resurfaced in the late 20th century. This terminology aims to parallel usage of the term "American War for Independence." A popular poem published in the early stages of hostilities was "South Carolina". Its prologue referred to the war as the "Third War for Independence" (it named the War of 1812 as the second such war.)  On November 8, 1860, the Charleston Mercury, a contemporary southern newspaper, stated that "The tea has been thrown overboard. The Revolution of 1860 has been initiated."



War for the Union

Some northerners used "The War for the Union", the title of both a December 1861 lecture by the abolitionist leader Wendell Phillips, and a major four-volume history by Allan Nevins published in the middle of the 20th century.



Second American Revolution

In the 1920's historian Charles Beard used the term the "Second American Revolution" to emphasize the changes brought on by the Northern victory. This is still used by the Sons of Confederate Veterans organization, though with the intent to demonstrate the depth of the South's cause.



War of Northern Aggression

The "War of Northern Aggression" has been used by those who maintain that the Union side was the belligerent party in the war.



War of Southern Aggression

The "War of Southern Aggression," conversely, has been used by those who maintain that the South was the belligerent party.



  From: Carole D. Bryant 

  Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 10:44 AM

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  Same here in Southern Maryland !!

  Mama said, "It was NOT a 'civil' war!" !!

   

   

   

   

  In a message dated 3/28/2011 12:42:27 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  

  [log in to unmask] writes:



  I am a  life long Tennessean and many in my family were in the CSA. In fact 

  my  great Grandmother told me, when she was in her eighties, that she 

  didn't  

  know "damyankee" was two words until she was grown. Likewise until I was  

  grown I had never heard the phrase"War of the Rebellion". It was always  

  called The War between the States (having upgraded from the War of  

  Northern 

  Aggression). One of my older relatives called it the "Recent  

  Unpleasantness" 

  up into the early 20th century. My own mother warned me  not to call it the 

  Civil War. As you can see feelings ran pretty strong  down here!

  Brenta Davis



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  From: robert  yingst

  Sent: Monday, March 28, 2011 7:41 AM

  To:  [log in to unmask]

  Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] War between the  'STATS'



  It was also called the War of Rebellion before that became  politically

  incorrect to use.



  On Mar 27, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Fern  wrote:



  > This is especially interesting for families like mine who  had as  many 

  > soldiers in the CSA

  > as they had on the  UNION side.

  >

  > The War Between the Stats. Yes, that's stats, not  states.

  >

  > Historians and statisticians are questioning the  statistics of

  > Confederate War dead. Official military records compiled  in 1866

  > counted 40,275 North Carolina soldiers who died in  uniform.

  > Reportedly, North Carolina had more men die in uniform than  any other

  > Confederate state, although not as many as New York in the  Union. Now

  > new investigations seem to show the 1866 claims, made when  records

  > were spotty, are highly inaccurate.

  >

  > While the  new counts are not yet complete, it looks like the true

  > count will be  about 31,000 deaths of North Carolina soldiers during

  > the war.  Meanwhile, a separate count iis being made of Virginia

  > soldiers and it  looks like its final tally will also be about 31,000,

  > far higher than  previous reports.

  >

  > "It's going to be close," says Virginia  librarian Edwin Ray, the man

  > making the count of Virginia deaths in  uniform.

  >

  > The issue tends to be emotional in the affected  states which have

  > pride in their soldiers who died for the losing  cause. Whatever the

  > final count, many people will have difficulty  believing it.

  >

  > New York reported the most deaths of any state:  46,534, according to

  > the 1866 federal report.

  >

  > You can  read more in an article by Cameron McWhirter in the Wall

  > Street  Journal at http://goo.gl/usb0U  If this link does not work -  try 

   

  > this one:

  >  

  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704662604576202823930087328.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsSecond

  >

  >  Another interesting fact is that Cameron McWhirter had family  fighting  

  > for the CSA

  > and this family member was a 'friend' of my  distant cousin General  Abe 

  > Buford

  > who rode with General  Forrest -CSA..

  >

  >

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