Was chatting recently with my friend Pierce Tomas about some of the different labels that have been applied to what is officially called the U.S. Civil War. That prompted me to recall the following item, "A War of Many Names," which I wrote first for my Everyday Life During the Civil War and which currently appears in its successor, Life In Civil War America.
"Few wars have been referred to in
quite so many ways as this one, and its various names reflect a wide range of
attitudes toward the conflict. The official name given to it by the victorious
Federal government is, of course, the Civil War, a term that came into use in
1861. In the Southern states, however, the terms used in 1861 included the
Revolution, the Second War for Independence, and the War of Secession.
A variety of other names came into use
during the war and in the decades following it, most of which reveal partiality
to one side or the other, a tone of reconciliation, humor or an emphasis on
some aspect of the conflict. These include the Great Fratricide, the War of
Northern Aggression, the War for Constitutional Liberty, the War Between the
States, the War Between the North and the South, the War for Southern
Independence, the Second American Revolution, the War for States’ Rights, Mr.
Lincoln’s War, the Southern Rebellion, the War for Southern Rights, the War of
the Southern Planters, the War of the Rebellion, the War to Suppress Yankee
Arrogance, the Brothers’ War, the Great Rebellion, the War for Nationality, the
War for Southern Nationality, the War Against Slavery, the Civil War Between
the States, the War of the Sixties, the War Against Northern Aggression, the
Yankee Invasion, the War for Separation, the War for Abolition, the War for
Union, the Confederate War, the War of the Southrons, the War for Southern
Freedom, the War of the North and the South, the Lost Cause, the Late
Unpleasantness, the late Friction, the Late Ruction, the Schism, the Uncivil
War and, especially in the South in the years since it ended, simply as the
War.
Overseas, the conflict was given still
other names. For example, contemporary German writers refer to it as the North
American War."
Hopefully I have included some names for the Civil War that you had not yet heard before — and if you know of any that I have missed please add to the list by posting a comment here!
For the past several months I have been building a presence on Twitter and learning how to effectively use it as a tool for promoting my various projects, notably those with Skirmisher Publishing LLC, the d-Infinity game franchise, and the America's Haunted Road Trip series of travel guides. One thing that continues to strike me in the course of these efforts is how poorly a great many organizations manage their Twitter presences, even though it is clear that they want to use it as a tool. 
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