[PaulZe]

The official name of the war is The War of the Rebellion, not the Civil War, not War between the states, or the War of Northern Aggression for that matter.

[HandyDandy]

Honest Abe seemed prefer to the term "civil war ".

As in yet one more snippet from his First Innaugural:

" In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."

[jeffersondem]

“The official name of the war is The War of the Rebellion, not the Civil War, not War between the states, or the War of Northern Aggression for that matter.”

Are you are saying Lincoln was rebelling against the principles of the U. S. Constitution?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: The official name of the war is The War of the Rebellion

Who gave that official name?

[SeekAndFind]

he official name of the war is The War of the Rebellion, not the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address ( excerpt ):

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Why did he not use the term War of Rebellion?