Civil War Names

[David]

Some names given the Civil War. Most come from the South.



The War for Constitutional Liberty
The War for Southern Independence
The Second American Revolution
The War for States' Rights
Mr. Lincoln's War
The Southern Rebellion
The War for Southern Rights
The War of the Southern Planters
The War of the Rebellion
The Second War for Independence
The War to Suppress Yankee Arrogance
The Brothers' War
The War of Secession
The Great Rebellion
The War for Nationality
The War for Southern Nationality
The War Against Slavery
The Civil War Between the States
The War of the Sixties
The War Against Northern Aggression
The Yankee Invasion
The War for Separation
The War for Abolition
The War for the Union
The Confederate War
The War of the Southrons
The War for Southern Freedom
The War of the North and South
The Lost Cause

[Tamaroa]

When I lived in Virginia, I used to hear the War of Northern aggression be referred to as "That Late Unpleasantness".

It has also been referred to as the First Modern war and also characterized as"The last of the old wars, the first of the new."This is also the war that spawned the phrase,"A Rich man's war and a poor man's fight vis-avis the use of purchased substitutes for the draft.

The official U.S. government's name for the war is the "War of The Rebellion," as in the "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion."

BillD.