In a message dated 11/6/2005 6:05:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, VandA121@aol.com writes: > *nobody* seems to know *exactly* what occurred during > the time of the Civil War, and never will. > Of course we don't....none of us was there at the time. I think "The War Between the States" is the most apt description, but since the South did not "win," Northerners got to name the "late unpleasantness" as they wish: The Civil War. Nothing civil about it.