The Confederate rebels saw the Northern Yankees as the only opponents to their bid for independence. The Southern victory would be the result of defeating Union armies. This differed greatly from the American and French revolutionaries. The latter two groups suppressed internal dissents. The Loyalists and the Royalists suffered in those wars. In contrast, the South did take action against Unionists in eastern Tennessee along with some Unionists in North Carolina.Dissenters throughout the South suffered very little in contrast to the American and French dissenters.
You are mixing up two wars. There is no comparison.
Rebels
The British called the colonists who fought against them during the American Revolution "rebels" or "patriots".
I assume you're talking about the American Civil War? The Confederate were also known as "Rebs" (short for Rebels)
Rebels
As of August 2013, there are four other names for patriots. The four other names for patriots are rebels, revolutionaries, congress-men, and American whigs.
The Rebels.
confederate soldiers, or rebels
'the union' and the southern was 'the rebels'
the confederacy
They called the Confederate soldiers the Rebels or "Rebs"
A "rebel" is someone who rebels or fights against his government. In American history, a Rebel was a soldier who fought in the army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War. Maybe you associate Nazi's and rebels because the modern Ku Klux Klan use both the Nazi German symbols and the Rebel flag. That has nothing to do with the Nazis during WW2.
Rebels/Johnny Reb/greycoats