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Old conversation. Debating definitions. If the bullets start flying what you call it, civil war or rebellion, really does not matter any more.From the Union side, it could be seen as a rebellion by the South, subject to criminal prosecution under domestic law. Lincoln himself used “rebellion” far more often than “civil war,” and the official War Department history compiled in the late nineteenth century was called The War of the Rebellion. - Scott Spillman, The New Republic, August 30, 2017
https://newrepublic.com/article/144603/war-civil-war-revolution