词汇 | civil war |
词源 | Civil War. The northern name for what some southerners called the War, the Revolution, the War of Independence, the Second War of Independence, the Second War of Secession, the Confederate War, the Glorious Cause, the War Between the States, the Unpleasantness, the Second American Revolu- tion, the War for Constitutional Liberty, the War for National- ity, the War for Separation, the War for Southern Freedom, the War for Southern Independence, the War for Southern Na- tionality, the War for Southern Rights, the War for States’ Rights, the War of the North and South, the War of the Sixties, the War to Suppress Yankee Arrogance, the Yankee Invasion, the Late Unpleasantness, and Mr. Lincoln’s War. All of these terms, including Civil War, were first recorded in 1861. See abe lincoln war. |
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