# "War of Northern Aggression"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 15, 2000, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752 "2000-12-15T15:48:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/41 "2000-12-16T17:36:22Z")
[Ehistory.com](http://Ehistory.com)…IMHO…the best all around Civil War site out there…Has a link to the official records of “The War of the Rebellion” [http://www.Ehistory.com/uscw/library/or/index.cfm](http://www.Ehistory.com/uscw/library/or/index.cfm) I myself prefer “The War of Northern Agression” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Sterra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Sterra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterra)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/42 "2000-12-16T18:11:03Z")
GD post removed, as promised. [Edited by manhattan on 12-16-2000 at 04:29 PM] ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/43 "2000-12-16T18:30:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lamia \* > \*\* I have never heard a Southern person use this phrase, and I have spent most of my life in the South. The only people I have ever heard say “The War of Northern Aggression” were Yankees who were saying it to make fun of Southerners who they thought would say such a thing. \*\* [/QUOTE] I’ve lived only 15 years in the South and have heard the term many times spoken by southerners. However, it is always said with tongue in cheek, as no one believed that Lincoln and the Union would let the South secede. GD portion of post removed, as promised. [Edited by manhattan on 12-16-2000 at 04:29 PM] ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/44 "2000-12-16T18:59:35Z")
GD post deleted, as promised. [Edited by manhattan on 12-16-2000 at 04:31 PM] ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/45 "2000-12-16T19:16:26Z")
[Fixed link]([http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,121260+4+111233,00.html?query=slavery%](http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,121260+4+111233,00.html?query=slavery%25) 20the%20civil%20war). ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/46 "2000-12-16T21:11:38Z")
GD post removed, as promised. [Edited by manhattan on 12-16-2000 at 04:32 PM] ---
**Author:** ![barbitu8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/839c29/32.png) [@barbitu8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/barbitu8)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/47 "2000-12-16T21:29:58Z")
GD post removed, as promised. [Edited by manhattan on 12-16-2000 at 04:33 PM] ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/48 "2000-12-16T22:31:51Z")
GD post removed, as promised. [Edited by manhattan on 12-16-2000 at 04:34 PM] ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/49 "2000-12-16T22:34:36Z")
Everybody happy? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/50 "2000-12-16T22:44:04Z")
It’s a fair cop. ---
**Author:** ![nebuli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/0ea827/32.png) [@nebuli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nebuli)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/51 "2000-12-16T22:53:43Z")
GD portion pre-removed to spare Manny the effort 😉 **OpalCat** asked: > [@](#): > > What is it called in other countries? I mean we refer to foreign wars by our own names, what do, say, people in Europe call the Civil War? Also, does anyone call the Revolutionary War “the British Civil War”? I believe they simply call it the American Civil War, just as we refer to the English Civil War, the Spanish Civil War, the Russian Civil War, etc., etc. As for the Revolution, I’ve seen British sources refer to it as the War of American Independence. Other nations probably use similar terminology. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/52 "2000-12-17T04:00:37Z")
I’ve also heard Brits refer to “that unpleasantness in 1776” 🙂 . ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/53 "2000-12-17T06:15:14Z")
I’m guessing this discussion will die out now. As history has shown, a thread divided shall not stand. ---
**Author:** ![Beruang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/77aa72/32.png) [@Beruang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beruang)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2000, 7:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752/54 "2000-12-17T07:42:14Z")
I used to work with a man from Georgia. He told me one day of his disbelief of finding a statue somewhere in Ohio, erected to the honor of the Union soldiers who had died in “the insurrection.” He felt this was Yankee hubris, belittling his ancestors. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/war-of-northern-aggression/45752.md?page=2)