[Blood of Tyrants]

It depends. Answer this question: What was the name of the war between the Union and Confederacy that started in 1861 and ended in 1865?

If you say "Civil War", you are a yankee. A civil war is a war over the control of a country. The South never sought to control the North, only it's own fate.

If you say "The War of Northern Agression", welcome brother.

[babyface00]

What if you say "War Between the States"?

[mrs. a]

I don't know, I always heard it referred to as "The War of the Southern Rebellion." ;-)

[Pyro7480]

I say neither. I say "The War Between the States," because that is factual as well.

[Ditto]

"If you say "Civil War", you are a yankee. A civil war is a war over the control of a country. The South never sought to control the North, only it's own fate. "

Up until the 1890s, the official US Government name for the "late unpleasantness" was the The War of the Rebellion while southerners called it "The War Between the States". Unlike modern neo-confederate revisionists, many in the south who had fought through the war took offence at the implication they were “Rebels” and Southern congress critters put a bill through Congress to have the war officially called "The Civil War."

The "Northern Aggression crap is all Lost Cause BS cooked up later as part of their revisionist mythology. If you don’t like the name Civil War, blame the southern congressmen who invented it. They had lived through the war, and that name was what they wanted.