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To: dinoparty

Our civil war was unique. The only things remotely similar, are the English Civil War -- and many to this day honor the Royalists -- and the '45, the Stuarts again, but also romantiziced in way not dissimilar to our romanticization of the (variously styled) War of the Rebellion, Civil War, War Between the States, War of Northern Agression (which is modern) and (my favorites) The War (I grew up knowing many Southerners who had grown up during Reconstruction, and their usual way of referring to it was as "THE War", sometimes with an emphasis on the "THE") and (sometimes heard in the late 19th and early 20th centuries) the Late Unpleasantness.


12 posted on 10/17/2005 8:52:42 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: CatoRenasci

How could I forget: The War for Southern Independence.


13 posted on 10/17/2005 8:54:22 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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