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put up in the 1880s and '90s,
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it's called the War of the Rebellion, if it's a Union monument.
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In the south, it was early called "The War Between the States."
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It was sometimes called "The War for Southern Independence."
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It was sometimes called "The War of Northern Aggression;"
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that sometimes is used now as a euphemism.
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My favorite label, and it wasn't just southern,
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but by the 1890s and turn of the twentieth century a label
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that got into the press and people loved it
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as a throwaway joke line, was,
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quote, "The late unpleasantness."
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You want to start dissolving conflict--