War Between the States
Americannoun
noun
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 ● Apr. 27, 2025
South Carolina, of course, could not and should not have won the War Between the States, the causes of which will forever remain a stain on the state’s history.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2020
That association of female descendants of Confederate veterans preserves the memories of those husbands, fathers, sons and brothers who died in the War Between the States.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 3, 2016
The center tells the story of what old-school Southerners call the War Between the States — from Union, Confederate and African-American points of view.
From New York Times ● Jul. 6, 2015
The only fight he’d ever lost before was the War Between the States.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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