In a message dated 2/24/2003 2:08:36 PM Central Standard Time, donkelly@grovenet.net writes: > My school teachers in California from the fourth grade through high > school history all called it "The Civil War" and that was the name given > in the text books. > > The textbooks said that Lincoln fought the war to free the slaves. Same here in Tennessee, on both counts. We were surely misled about the facts.