[Colonel Kangaroo]

The rebellion was a political power grab, not a legitimate expression of the Southern people. As NC's Confederate governor admitted:

"….I have always believed, that the great popular heart is not now, and never has been in this war. It was a revolution of the Politicians; not the People."

[2ndDivisionVet]

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[duffee]

In the North it was “The Civil War”, to the Southern media and politicians it was “The War for Southern Independence”, to the those in the South who did the killing, the dying and the mourning, it was “The War Against Northern Aggression”.