I am about half way through volume I of Grant's memoirs, written about 1885, and I notice when he gives a name to the war, he usually calls it "the war of the rebellion." Once I noticed he used the term "war between the states".
This was twenty years after the end of the war. Was he just in the minority using these terms, or had we not settled on a name for the war yet at that time?
I had a very southern high school teacher in the 1980s who like to call it "the war of Northern aggression" I think she was half serious, half not.
Does anyone know about when both North and South settled on the "Civil War" as common usage?
This was twenty years after the end of the war. Was he just in the minority using these terms, or had we not settled on a name for the war yet at that time?
I had a very southern high school teacher in the 1980s who like to call it "the war of Northern aggression" I think she was half serious, half not.
Does anyone know about when both North and South settled on the "Civil War" as common usage?