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<blockquote data-quote="Billybob" data-source="post: 1912949" data-attributes="member: 1294">Depended on who you asked I guess.&quot;The term &quot;War Between the States&quot; was rarely used during the war but became prevalent afterward in the South, as part of an effort to perpetuate its interpretation of the war.&quot;&quot;During and immediately after the war, U.S. officials and pro-Union writers often referred to Confederates as &quot;Rebels&quot;. The earliest histories published in the northern states commonly refer to the Civil War as &quot;the Great Rebellion&quot; or &quot;the War of the Rebellion,&quot;[11] as do many war monuments.&quot;&quot;The official war records of the United States refer to this war as the War of the Rebellion. The records were compiled by the U.S. War Department in a 127-volume collection under the title The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, published from 1881 to 1901. Historians commonly refer to the collection as the Official Records.[12]&quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_the_American_Civil_War#War_of_the_Rebellion" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_the_American_Civil_War#War_of_the_Rebellion</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Billybob, post: 1912949, member: 1294"] Depended on who you asked I guess. "The term "War Between the States" was rarely used during the war but became prevalent afterward in the South, as part of an effort to perpetuate its interpretation of the war." "During and immediately after the war, U.S. officials and pro-Union writers often referred to Confederates as "Rebels". The earliest histories published in the northern states commonly refer to the Civil War as "the Great Rebellion" or "the War of the Rebellion,"[11] as do many war monuments." "[B]The official war records of the United States refer to this war as the War of the Rebellion[/B]. The records were compiled by the U.S. War Department in a 127-volume collection under the title The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, published from 1881 to 1901. Historians commonly refer to the collection as the Official Records.[12]" [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_the_American_Civil_War#War_of_the_Rebellion[/url] [/QUOTE]

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