Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 20:54:02 -0500
From: "Barry A. Popik" Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM
Subject: VETERANS DAY SPECIAL: Civil War
CIVIL WAR
This is from the New York World, 23 July 1898, pg. 3, col. 5:
"CIVIL WAR BETWEEN THE STATES."
Confederate Veterans Object to
"War of the Rebellion"--Honors
for Miss Winnie Davis.
ATLANTA. July 22.--(...) the convention of United Confederate
Veterans. (...)
By unanimous vote it was decided to condemn the expression "War of the
rebellion" being applied to the struggle of 1861-65, and to urge the
designation of it as the "Civil war between the States."
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