a recent war, especially the american civil war

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late unpleasantness

2003: It is unlikely that anyone with significant knowledge of the Army or the late unpleasantness in Southeast Asia, upon reading these two sentences, would respond other than with a scatological barnyard expletive or some more genteel utterance representing the same level of acceptance. — Zane E. Finkelstein (referring to the Vietnam War).