War Between the States

Example Sentences

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The American Civil War was sometimes referred in the South as the War Between the States, and, later, the War of Northern Aggression.

From Los Angeles Times

In that handbook’s pages VMI had responded to its legal loss to federal authorities by reverting to turn-of-the-century rhetoric, referring to “The War Between the States,” even though Rat Bibles had talked about “the Civil War” as far back as 1922.

From Slate

It’s already turning into a virtual war between the states.

From Los Angeles Times

Beautiful Crescent drops the pretense of continental sophistication when it turns to the “War Between the States.”

From Slate

They chose Lee as the dignified, slightly tragic hero of their fanciful retelling of what they called “The War Between the States.”

From Washington Post