(thing) by Quizro Fri Feb 11 2000 at 21:00:50
(1861-1865) Fought between the federal government of the United States and the Confederate States of America ("the Confederacy") which consisted of 11 Southern states that asserted their right to secede from the Union.

Also known, depending on who's talking, as the War Between the States, the War for States' Rights, the Late Unpleasantness, and the War of Northern Aggression.

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