"The term 'Civil War' ought to be abandoned because it embodies an error... The movement was a revolution. The object of it was to maintain a separate government. The war was between the government of the United States and the government of the Confederate States. We went out of the Union; went so completely [out] that we had to be re-admitted."

— Rev. Alexander D. Betts, "Experience of a Confederate Chaplain, 1861-1864" (1865)

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