[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?

[DoodleDawg]

Why did he not use the term War of Rebellion?

Notice Lincoln did not capitalize "civil war". That means it was a descripton and not a title. In all official correspondence - Emancipation Proclamation, Blockade Order, etc. - he refers to it as either a rebellion or an isurrection.

[PaulZe]

fine but the official name is war of the rebellion as in “The Official Records of the war of the Rebellion”