According to the author of this article, RE Lee used the term Civil War, so I fail to see why any good southerner would object to the term.
>>According to the author of this article, RE Lee used the term Civil War, so I fail to see why any good southerner would object to the term.
Did he use it as one would use the common terminology for anything? That does not prove his support of the term. It only proves that he was willing to accept the vernacular term.
It’s like when we call Progressives “Liberal”. There is nothing liberal about them, but that’s the term that has come into common usage.