Yeah but you didn't win. So a rebellion it was, and a rebellion it remains.
Yeah but you didn't win. So a rebellion it was, and a rebellion it remains.
There is no "me" or "you" in regards to the Confederate States of America with me. My ancestors were fighting on both sides of the Cuban Wars of Independence or Wars of Cuban Rebellion in those days.
I was just calling you on your categorical statement regarding the term "Civil War":
"I've checked defines a civil war as " war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country." Which is an accurate defintion of what happened."
Since the term and the meaning of "citizen" is a creation of human law, any use of it is subjective when two sets of law conflict.
Was George Washington a British subject after July 4, 1776 but before the defeat of the British at Yorktown?
By your statement regarding "rebellion", you seem to agree that, whatever you call it, "Civil War" is not an accurate term.
As I noted, during the war itself, nobody referred to it as a "Civil War".
It was only in later years, that the more Politically Correct term "Civil War" came into common usage and even the title title of "Harpers' Weekly History of the Great Rebellion" was changed to "Harpers' Weekly History of the Civil War".
The OFFICIAL name, which it was given by Congress in 1877, was as follows "War Between the States"....so take your "rebellion" and........(well, you'll think of something I'm sure!)