War Between the States

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

Their summit in Singapore is a life-and-death issue that — unlike America’s War Between the States, which began and ended in the South — continues today as a peninsula divided as North and South Korea.

From Washington Times • May 10, 2018

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