Atdtda[4]: Veterans of the Rebellion.

[Dave Monroe]

On 3/5/07, Michel <mryc2903 at yahoo.fr> wrote:

> The Veterans of the Rebellion @ 97.13 rises, for me at least, a rather
> puzzling question. Using the phrase 'Rebellion' and not 'Civil War', it
> is not unlikely that the narrator sees this from the pov of the Vets
> themselves....

Naming the American Civil War

There have been numerous alternative names for the American Civil War
that reflect the historical, political, and cultural sensitivities of
different groups and regions.

[...]

War of the Rebellion

During and immediately after the war, U.S. officials and pro-Union
writers often referred to Confederates as "Rebels" and to the war
itself as "the Rebellion." In modern usage, however, the term "War of
the Rebellion" usually refers only to the collection of documents
compiled and published by the U.S. War Department as The War of the
Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880–1901,
usually referred to as the Official Records. This 70-volume collection
is the chief source of historical documentation for those interested
in Civil War research.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_the_American_Civil_War

Call it what you will, the conflict in North America of 1861-1865
represented intense partisanship, a staking out of claims that even
(or perhaps especially) extended to what name it would have.

During the war, the Confederate government carefully avoided styling
itself a rebellion and saw itself as perpetuating the original,
unsullied constitution of the Founding Fathers. Later, the formulation
of sometime Confederate vice president Alexander H. Stephens of a "War
Between the States" (WBTS) became popular below the Mason-Dixon line.
The United Confederate Veterans, United Daughters of the Confederacy,
and other like-minded groups eventually declared that the WBTS was the
correct term.

Among Union veterans, the expression "Great Rebellion," or simply "the
rebellion," held sway into the twentieth century. Moderates and
conciliators favored "the Civil War." Records of the U.S. War
Department in the National Archives shed some light on the development
of the name controversy....

http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1995/summer/civil-war-records-2.html

United States. War Dept.
The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the
Union and Confederate Armies

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/browse.monographs/waro.html