Dear Listers, Yep. I am a Southerner, a researcher, and a writer about the CW, some of reconstruction, the KKK, and all that. And I have accepted the title, "Civil War." But I have never been too fond of Abe Lincoln. Tom John Parrott wrote: > Here-here, Rick. I am a son of the south and have no problem calling the > civil war what it was-but it is over, done with and needs to be forgotten > beyond genealogical lines. > The might of's and should have been is speculation and as my grandmother > used to say so eloquently, "if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its rear on > the ground." > So-I am all for sticking to genealogy and forget about what to call the > civil war, (which is the official listed and accepted name by the US > historical society, school text books, dictionaries, and encyclopedias) > John Parrott > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rick Waggener" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 3:45 PM > Subject: [VACULPEP] The Civil War > > >