would you name the war by what happened after it?
HTM
HB of CJ wrote:Well I suppose if the South had won and if the North had lost and the South occupied the North for over 10 years under martial law where the North had no civil rights and if the South had taken most of the wealth from the North and had pretty much done to the North what the North DID IN FACT do to the South during the War Of Northern Agression and during the period after also known as the Deconstruction Era ... Then it might have been called the War Of Southern Agression. Other names include the Civil War, The War Between the States, The War of Succession.
Who shot first? We were taught it was the Union guns who first opened up. Then the Southern guns. Nobody was even killed until a Northern gun blew up some how during some sort of strange salute after surrendering. The first apparent deaths of that horrible state of affairs may have been self inflected ... by the North on the North. I suppose it all depends where you lived, where you went to school and what you were told by family who actually did live in the South at that time. Very sad time.
