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  • proper noun Any of several civil wars.

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Capitalization of civil war.

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Examples

  • ROBERTS: So a lot more on his plate than Lincoln, even though the Civil War was a huge issue.

    CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2008 2008

  • It was a turning-point in American history, for if the U.S. had refused to yield, and war had followed, she could not have hoped to fight Britain and the Confederacy together; the Civil War would have been lost and Southern independence assured.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • This changed after the Civil War, but until 1935 it was still illegal to 'bring a negro, mulatto or Chinaman'into the state by that same constitution.

    Big Conservative Attack Ad Proves A Bust 2009

  • You can solve our economic crisis quickly and permanently, by implementing the same economic solution that allowed Lincoln to win the Civil War and thus save the Union from foreign economic masters.

    Draft The Bankers; Contain the rats 2009

  • This is apparently the strange palace the US Government built to house Civil War pension records c.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Government and Architecture 2009

  • You can solve our economic crisis quickly and permanently, by implementing the same economic solution that allowed Lincoln to win the Civil War and thus save the Union from foreign economic masters.

    Revive Lincoln's Monetary Policy: An open letter to President Obama 2009

  • Obviously, we won a historic victory up in New York 23, seat that has been held by the Republicans since the Civil War, lost Virginia and New Jersey.

    CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2009 2009

  • I'm saying that a person who espouses the ideas that Ron Paul does — opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, blaming Abraham Lincoln for starting the Civil War and thinking it should never have been fought — makes me want to know more, and when he is also a man of a certain age from the South, that tweaks my suspicion up a notch.

    "The bigoted past of Ron Paul." Ann Althouse 2008

  • During the Civil War, Lee lost a third of his Generals in the battle of Gettysburg alone.

    When Barbara Boxer took note of Condoleezza Rice's childlessness. Ann Althouse 2007

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Rapacious Developers Swallow Up Civil War Battlefields'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Communities are compromising their "greenspace" standards, writes newpaper columnist and Civil War historian William Marvel.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Rapacious Developers Swallow Up Civil War Battlefields 2006

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