1,396 Days

[Rajewellson]

We all like to talk and discuss all the main battles and skirmishes of the War Of Northern Aggression and hardly every thing about what happened all of the other day of the war.
The War of Nothern Aggression was from 1861 to 1865, we all know that but that was 1,396 days that fighting took place somewhere everyday of those 1,396 days. In total there was some 10,455 military events that happened. Some big ones and some with no names, but there was some sort of fighting every day of the War not just on the days the Big Battles happened..
Just something to think about.

 

[1SGDan]

The War of Nothern Aggression

Using this type of language is not a good way to start a conversation. The correct term is the Civil War.
BTW the word is spelled Northern.

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

https://deadconfederates.com/2011/0...ression-is-modern-segregationist-revisionism/

 

[matthew mckeon]

Folks, its only trolling if you rise to the bait.

Interesting point. There's only one Civil War battle I can rely most folks remembering: Gettysburg. But you were just as dead if you fell at the Battle of Jenkins Ferry.

 

[matthew mckeon]

Not counting the men who died of disease in camp far from any battlefield.

 

[WJC]

Using this type of language is not a good way to start a conversation. The correct term is the Civil War.
BTW the word is spelled Northern.

There are more than one names for the conflict. Officially, it is the "War of the Rebellion". Over time most have come to use the name "Civil War", enough that it is generally accepted. Some, however, call it the "War Between the States"; others call it the "War of Northern Aggression". All can be considered equally "correct".
Let's not get 'hung up' on the name....

 

[1SGDan]

"War of Northern Aggression"

No reasonable historian would use this name.

 

[Josh The Lighthouse Guy]

others call it the "War of Northern Aggression". All can be considered equally "correct".

No, they cannot. Not only is the name factually incorrect, but it was popularized in the 1950s because of the Civil Rights movement.

 

[Viper21]

I prefer, "War for Southern Independence"

 

[CSA Today]

I prefer, "War for Southern Independence"

So do I. It wasn't a war to end slavery, it wasn't a war to protect slavery (it was already protected), It wasn't a war to overthrow the government in Washington, DC and change it, it was a War for Southern Independence and the Lincoln regime wasn't going to stand for it.

 

[Viper21]

So do I. It wasn't a war to end slavery, it wasn't a war to protect slavery (it was already protected), It wasn't a war to overthrow the government in Washington, DC and change it, it was a War for Southern Independence and the Lincoln regime wasn't going to stand for it.

Seems to be the most accurate title.

 

[Jimklag]

So do I. It wasn't a war to end slavery, it wasn't a war to protect slavery (it was already protected), It wasn't a war to overthrow the government in Washington, DC and change it, it was a War for Southern Independence and the Lincoln regime wasn't going to stand for it.

Only those who lost the war (and not nearly all of them) call it The War For Southern Independence. Civil War is the most neutral and therefore the most popular title. A civil war is defined as a war between the people of one common country, That is what the war was, a Civil War, however one or the other side wishes to characterize it. I think that is the only title that is accurate in all senses, not just dictionary definition - it's also the least controversial.

 

[Viper21]

Only those who lost the war (and not nearly all of them) call it The War For Southern Independence. Civil War is the most neutral and therefore the most popular title. A civil war is defined as a war between the people of one common country, That is what the war was, a Civil War, however one or the other side wishes to characterize it. I think that is the only title that is accurate in all senses, not just dictionary definition - it's also the least controversial.

The folks who founded the CSA, believed they had formed their own independent country. The war was fought (on their part), to guarantee said independence.

 

[CSA Today]

Only those who lost the war (and not nearly all of them) call it The War For Southern Independence. Civil War is the most neutral and therefore the most popular title. A civil war is defined as a war between the people of one common country, That is what the war was, a Civil War, however one or the other side wishes to characterize it. I think that is the only title that is accurate in all senses, not just dictionary definition - it's also the least controversial.

Of course, from the Yankee nation's point of view, it had provoked a war to prevent Southern independence.

 

[Jimklag]

Of course, from the Yankee nation's point of view, it had provoked a war to prevent Southern independence.

Not from the Yankee point of view - from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

 

[Carronade]

"Civil War" commonly denotes a war within a nation for control of the entire nation, like the English or Russian.

"War for Southern Independence" states the issue accurately. Had they succeeded it might be "War of Southern (or Confederate) Independence".

"War of the Rebellion" isn't bad, as long as we've only had one big rebellion , but it doesn't address what they were rebelling about.

 

[Jimklag]

"Civil War" commonly denotes a war within a nation for control of the entire nation, like the English or Russian.

That is precisely what the American Civil War was. There could not be two separate nations (or more like 12 separate nations) unless the south won. Until that happened it was an internal American war for control of the USA.

 

[WJC]

***Posted as Moderator***
Please focus on the topic under discussion- the many smaller, seldom discussed actions- not semantics.

 

[Southern Volunteer]

Out of curiosity what date does the 1,396 days put the end at? Appomattox? Johnson's proclamation? Kirby Smith's Surrender? Watie's? The Shenandoah's surrender in Liverpool?

 

[Jimklag]

Out of curiosity what date does the 1,396 days put the end at? Appomattox? Johnson's proclamation? Kirby Smith's Surrender? Watie's? The Shenandoah's surrender in Liverpool?

Good question. It was 1485 days from Ft. Sumter to Appomattox - 1505 from Sumter to E. Kirby Smith's surrender. I see no significance to 1396.