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1. • • The term “civil war” comes from the Latin phrase bellum civile, which translates to “war of or pertaining to civilians,” and was first used to describe the Roman civil wars of the 1st century BCE.
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   Why was Civil War called the Civil War?

   • For most people in the North and South, though, Civil War was the war’s name. The choice reflected and facilitated reunion and reconciliation, but at the cost of obscuring the causes and consequences of the war.

   What the Name “Civil War” Tells Us–and Why It Matters

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   What did Confederates call the Civil War?

   • Throughout the struggle Confederates likewise spoke of the “civil war,” or just “this war.” But most often, Northerners referred to the war as a rebellion. They commonly used phrases like “this rebellion” and “the great rebellion.”

   The War of the Rebellion and the Naming of the American Civil War

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   What does civil mean in Civil War?

   • The use civil in civil war is not related to the definition "quiet or peaceable behavior." It refers to an older meaning, "of or relating to citizens"; civil war is between citizens of the same country. The term entered the lexicon in the early 16th century.

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   Why did African Americans choose a name for the Civil War?

   • And some African Americans still chose names that emphasized the centrality of slavery and emancipation to the war, as Frederick Douglass and other African Americans had during the Civil War, when they promoted names such as Abolition War or The Slaveholder’s Rebellion. For most people in the North and South, though, Civil War was the war’s name.

   What the Name “Civil War” Tells Us–and Why It Matters

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   Why was the Civil War called the abolition War?

   • Meanwhile, among Confederates and their sympathizers in the North, one popular term for the conflict was “abolition war.” It evoked radical ideas like racial equality that many whites all over the country opposed. The Macon Daily Telegraph reported that many in the Midwest viewed the conflict as “an unholy, unchristian, unjust Abolition War.”

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   Is Civil War a proper noun?

   • During the war, Northerners and Southerners sometimes used the uncapitalized phrase “civil war” as a declarative description of the mess in which they found themselves, but Civil War was not yet a proper noun. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war,” President Lincoln famously declared in the Gettysburg Address.

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3. www.journalofthecivilwarera.org › 2018 › 09What the Name “Civil War” Tells Us–and Why It Matters

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   Sep 11, 2018 · What do Americans call the conflict that tore their nation apart from 1861 to 1865? And what difference does it make what name they use? Today most call it the Civil War, but as I discuss in my recent article in the September issue of the journal, Americans have not always agreed on that name. [1] .

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   It is this sense of civil, rather than the “mannerly” one, which gives us civil war, with its meaning of “a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country.” Civil began being used in the 14th century, and civil war entered the lexicon early in the 16th.

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   Jan 15, 2021 · Historian Gaines M. Foster writes that Americans once used a similar range of terms to describe what we now think of as the actual Civil War. After Confederate troops fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, Foster writes, President Lincoln described the situation as an “insurrection.”

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   Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came. Abraham Lincoln

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   Sep 11, 2018 · What the Name “Civil War” Tells Us–and Why It Matters. What do Americans call the conflict that tore their nation apart from 1861 to 1865? And what difference does it make what name they use?

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   Aug 20, 2013 · Throughout the struggle Confederates likewise spoke of the “civil war,” or just “this war.”. But most often, Northerners referred to the war as a rebellion. They commonly used phrases like...

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    Apr 4, 2016 · Some, prominent figures of the day did occasionally refer to the conflict as a “civil war” – a reference that’s even contained in the second paragraph of Lincoln’s own Gettysburg Address – however the name didn’t gain widespread currency until some years later.