Sorry for the OT , but just to clarify one point
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The expression "War of Northern Aggression" was coined to make the Civil War sound more like a war between two independent nations instead of an actual civil war. It always rankled the South that they were never recognized as such at home or abroad.
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I know, but the point I was making is that it was coined at the time when a certain lady made a little bit of fuss about sitting at the back of a bus.
If it was truly about foreign and domestic recognition of the confederacy you would find no shortage of examples of its use prior to the 1950s .
Its a term which just erupts in 1956 during the bus boycott in Montgomery.