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Originally Posted by BenG
The U.S. war wasn't a civil war; it was a war between the states. (Or at least that's what unreconstructed southerners called it.)  |
That's what the unreconstructed southerners call it now.
The term "War Between the States" was rarely used during the war.
The Confederate States of America was arguably a more centralized country than the U.S.A. One of their biggest grievances was the situation in which a state could refuse cooperation with out-of-state slave-catchers.
During and immediately after the war, Northern forces often used the term "War of the Rebellion", while the Southern equivalent was "War for Southern Independence".