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Don't you mean the War of the Rebellion and the War of Northern Agression?

Scott D. Peters
Research Director/Archivist
Ocean County Historical Society
26 Hadley Ave., P.O. Box 2191
Toms River, NJ 08754-2191
(732) 341-1880
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"Telling the Stories of Ocean County"

Historically Speaking
ALHFAM -FPIPN vice-chair for trivia, errata and miscellany
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"The ordinary distinctions in society are often vague, and imply no just
pre-eminence: rank and titles are
adventitious things and instead of designating merit or virtue, are
frequently the baubles of imbecility, or
the sparkling decorations of meretricious pageantry"

William Griffith, on behalf, and by order of the New-Jersey Society for
promoting the gradual Abolition
of Slavery, Twelfth Month (December) 20th, 1803
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From: "Carol Ely" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 7:22 PM
Subject: Re: Artistic license vs. historical integrity


> And - the fact that there are usually two different widely accepted names
> for Civil War battles is a lesson in itself - the South and the North
didn't
> see things the same way then, and they still don't. I teach the Civil War
at
> the college level here in the border state of Kentucky, and I ask each
class
> how they learned to name the war itself: Civil War, or War Between the
> States? Most of them didn't realize that they had already absorbed a point
> of view.
>
> Carol Ely
> Museum Consultant
> Louisville

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