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==Names==

==Names==

The American Civil War has been called by other titles: the '''War Between the States''' was popular in the South before the 1970s, as is the informal title '''The Lost Cause'''.  Officially, the United States government has called it the '''War of the Rebellion'''.  The term "civil war" is most accurate, as it not only involved state against state from a common country, but the splitting of families as well; fathers would take sides against sons, and brother would fight against brother in many battles.  In one sad case, Private Wesley Culp of the 2nd Virginia Regiment would die for the Confederacy at the [[Battle of Gettysburg]], killed on his father's farm.<ref>(TL 15, pp. 154-155)</ref>

The American Civil War has been called by other titles: the '''War Between the States''' was popular in the South before the 1970s, as is the informal title '''The Lost Cause'''.  Officially, the United States government has called it the '''War of the Rebellion''' since the government never accepted that the States of the Confederacy had succeeded in leaving the Union.  The term "civil war" is most accurate, as it not only involved state against state from a common country, but the splitting of families as well; fathers would take sides against sons, and brother would fight against brother in many battles.  In one sad case, Private Wesley Culp of the 2nd Virginia Regiment would die for the Confederacy at the [[Battle of Gettysburg]], killed on his father's farm.<ref>(TL 15, pp. 154-155)</ref> Many significant battles of the War were named differently by the North and the South. An early example of this is the Battle of Bull Run (as named by the Union) where the Confederacy named it the "Battle of Manassas".

==Prelude to war==

==Prelude to war==