This is actually a common belief among children. But, when I was little, I used to believe that the Cival War was called the Silver War.
A childhood belief about wars

others believed things like this
- I thought common as muck was a substance called commoners muck— oddsox
- I thought the Civil War was the Silver War.— Vicki J.
- I was convinced that children weren't humans, only adults were, children were a total different race!— Leda
- I used to think Kenny Rogers had 400 children and a crop in the field. Rather than 4 hungry children.Anon
- My daddy used to think that there was a children-police that killed children who was bad— jonnie
- "The wombles of Wimbledon Common are we" meant that there were loads of them...— Mike