late unpleasantness

late unpleasantness
A recent war, especially the . <! please add a quotation from some time shortly after the civil war, the term was apparently coined quite soon after

With membership limited strictly to "veterans of the late unpleasantness," the GAR encouraged the formation of Allied Orders to aid them in its various works. &mdash; Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Brief History of the Grand Army of the Republic [


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