To: SmokingJoe
I dislike the casual use of “civil war” in conversation on TV.
Prefer “the first Civil War” meaning the US 1860s.
Good, non-woke historian H.W. Brands book Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution (2021)
is good but adds to the confusion.
2 posted on
05/30/2026 12:44:40 PM PDT by
frank ballenger
(There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
To: frank ballenger
I dislike the casual use of “civil war” in conversation on TV.We could call this “internecine fighting” instead.
To: frank ballenger
Historian Barbara Tuchman called the Revolution the “First World War” in her excellent book “The First Salute.”
To: frank ballenger
We called it ‘The War Between the States’ when we weren’t wound up - then it was ‘The War of Northern Aggression’.
27 posted on
05/30/2026 2:21:42 PM PDT by
Semper Vigilantis
(Currently experiencing life at too many WTFs per minute.)
To: frank ballenger
Using the word ‘first’ indicates that there is another........
28 posted on
05/30/2026 2:24:35 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: frank ballenger
Prefer “the first Civil War” meaning the US 1860s. I thought the war of that era was the War of Northern Aggression.
37 posted on
05/30/2026 7:18:09 PM PDT by
AlaskaErik
(There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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