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Old 04-12-2011, 03:35 PM   #5
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Re: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War

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Originally Posted by firstdown View Post
Why do they call it a civil war when it was anything but civil. Shouldn't it be called the UnCivil War?

I beleive Civil in this case has the meaning of commonwealth or state. So essential it could have beeen called the State War or the Commonwealth War.
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