War Between the States

noun

1. the American Civil War: used especially in the South.

War Between the States

noun

1. the American Civil War

Example Sentences

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

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What we know already is that a war between the states has broken out, and at the center of it will be the very same Supreme Court that pledged to return the abortion issue to the rest of us.

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“Everyone knows that in the past the Indians have been robbed, tricked, cheated, and shamefully exploited … the same thing is true of us white people. Our own ancestors were robbed during the war between the states. A steamboat line between Memphis and New Orleans in which our grandfather owned one-third was confiscated and we never got a cent of recompense.”

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“The Civil War was the War Between the States and we were taught how the South won the major battles. In my Tennessee history class I did not learn who lost the Civil War.”

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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.

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