[trek]

To quote Webster:

Civil War: War between geographical sections or political factions of the same nation. {emphasis mine}

To call the conflict a civil war is to presuppose the outcome. The right of the southern States to secede and form the Confederacy was the central question being contended between the parties. Calling the War Between the States a "civil war" is done to hide the true causes of the war. Its just one of many ways modern elites poke southerners in the eye.

But I will admit that it is wisely, if unfortunately, written that the victors write the history.

[elbucko]

Its just one of many ways modern elites poke southerners in the eye.

Do you "Rebels" want an apology from the federal government and an "interpretative and contemplative" display at the Smithsonian done by revisionist, socialist, history professors to tell your side? Sure sounds like it.

[Non-Sequitur]

Civil War: War between geographical sections or political factions of the same nation. {emphasis mine}

OK, how about a rebellion, which Merriam-Webster defines as "open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government"? That more accurate?

[Dawgreg]

Exactly trek. To call it a Civil War is to miss it's meaning altogether. If Virginia fought Virginia, etc., that would be a Civil War. A War of Northern Aggression is what I call it and always will. *~*