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Confederate War

American  

noun

Chiefly South Atlantic States.
  1. the American Civil War.


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The mayor delayed decisions on the Confederate War Memorial, but the council this year voted to remove it, shooting down Rawlings’ push to recontextualize it.

From Washington Times • Jun. 4, 2019

And it was Wilson who started the presidential tradition of laying a Memorial Day wreath at Arlington Cemetery’s Confederate War Memorial.

From Salon • Jul. 11, 2015

In San Antonio, protesters gathered at the city's Confederate War Veterans Monument and chanted: "The banks got bailed out, we got sold out."

From Reuters • Oct. 7, 2011

The Confederate War Department did not think highly of this, but shortly transferred him and his troops east of the Mississippi.

From The Struggle for Missouri by McElroy, John

The New York paper usually reached the Confederate War Department on the day following publication.

From The Civil War Centennial Handbook by Price, William H.

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