Question

On August 16, 1861 President Lincoln declared the Confedrate States to be in rebellion against the United States. Why do you think Lincoln would call it a rebellion instead of calling the situation a war

Answer 1

can come as a surprise, then, to see that its full title is The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. It was called that because the rebellion was what the people who actually fought the war, especially but not only on the Union side, were most likely to call it.

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