PatYoung
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One hazard of writing about the Civil War is encountering people who insist that REAL NAME of the conflict is "The War of Northern Aggression." No it isn't. The Civil War had a lot of alternative names in the first eight decades after it ended, but "The War of Northern Aggression" was not one of them. It only became popular in the South after the Supreme Court issued its desegregation order in 1954.
War of Northern Aggression, Civil War, War Between the States...The Eternal Argument (or was it?) - The Reconstruction Era
One of the most tiresome aspects of writing about the Civil War and Reconstruction period is encountering people who insist that the “real name” of...
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