Comments on: Civil War or War Between the States?

By: msimons

msimons — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:27:27 +0000

After rereading my post it should be taken a being funny. I vote for the WBS but I would not make it a issue during a dicussion over the Late Unpleasantness” .

By: msimons

msimons — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:27:27 +0000

After rereading my post it should be taken a being funny. I vote for the WBS but I would not make it a issue during a dicussion over the Late Unpleasantness” .

By: Kevin Levin

Kevin Levin — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:43:56 +0000

I think we can all agree with your grandmother that there was nothing civil about it, but that is not how the word is being used in this context. I apologize if you meant to be funny.

By: msimons

msimons — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:36:07 +0000

My 96 year old Grandmother who is my living like to my Civil War Soldier her Grandfather Called it the War of Northern Agression. She said there was nothing Civil About it.

By: Joseph Eros

Joseph Eros — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:24:43 +0000

There's a good article on this subject: “The War Between the Names” by John M. Coski (of the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond) in _North & South_ magazine, vol. 8 no. 7 (January 2006). Coski presents a lot of evidence that the United Daughters of the Confederacy played a significant role in getting “war between the states” to be a widely-used term in the early 20th century. In 1898, before the UDC’s campaign got underway, the United Confederate Veterans began protesting use of the term “war of the rebellion.” Somewhat ironically, their suggested alternative was “the civil war between the states”, which the UCV’s magazine continued to use until 1913.

By: Is the American civil war really over?? - Page 9

Is the American civil war really over?? - Page 9 — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:53:54 +0000

[...] and civil (pun not intended). Obviously, "Civil War" was the choice that won out. Civil War or War Between the States? __________________ "So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, [...]

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:41:13 +0000

When soldiers in Wisconsin were recruited for service in 1862 newspaper accounts often referred to the conflict as the war of southern rebellion, while in the south, where most of the war was fought, it was often referred to as the war of northern aggression. Referring to it as 'the Civil War' seems fairly neutral, but I suspect it was largely after the fact. Lincoln referred to it as a “civil war” in his Gettysburg Address. Once the president calls it a civil war, it would seem to me that makes the term politically correct.

By: Larry Cebula

Larry Cebula — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:34:21 +0000

And isn't there a scene in the film Stagecoach where the alcoholic northern doctor and the alcoholic southern gambler have a tense exchange of words over what to call the war?

By: Larry Cebula

Larry Cebula — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:31:42 +0000

As a Washingtonian I must object!

The professor to whom you refer is Edmond S. Meany.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:24:11 +0000

Kevin, the UVA book (one of our primary guidebooks to marker hunting), published in 2007, is a good reference but only notes the text and location of current markers, as of writing. Older editions offer text of markers now replaced or missing. Those editions date to the 1980s, and of course detail the markers that existed at that time. We also have traced down text and photos of markers long since vanished through VDOT and local historical societies.