[reg45]

I see that you are using the term “Civil War”. I feel microaggressed - what about using “The War Between the States”, or “The War of Northern Aggression”? (Boy that last one - talk about being “aggressed”!)

I like the term "War of 1861", which shouldn't offend anyone.

[21twelve]

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/07/walter-e-williams/the-war-of-1861/

Thanks - I had never heard of the term “War of 1861”. Found the above link - has some interesting information of the debate going on when they were writing the Constitution. Some were for allowing secession, some were against it. (It ended up being allowed).

Although the name lacks the importance and vastness of the war. Perhaps “The Great War of 1861”. Of course then they would have come up for a different name originally given to WW I!

[central_va]

I prefer the term “recent unpleasantness”.