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For Some, 'Civil War' Doesn't Describe Historic Conflict
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The Washington Post
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December 2, 2004
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The Civil War was the Civil War was the Civil War.
Or was it?
I always thought it rather quaint that some Southerners insist on
calling the Civil War the War Between the States. I live in the
Shenandoah Valley, where the war isn't really over and Gen. Thomas
"Stonewall" Jackson and the Confederate States of America are still a
presence. So I have been careful to use both names so as not to
appear biased, as I grew up in Massachusetts.
But, curious about the alternative nam...
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