civil war, n.Definitions

Civil War is a momentous evil, so needs momentous and solemn justification.

The Civil War is not ended: It's worth questioning whether any serious civil war ever does end.

Civil War is not all bad; at least you can eat your meals at home

A Civil War is, in fact, any war at all — all wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers...

The Civil War is purely about the northern desire for economic control of the southern states. Slavery was no more than a piece of specious humbug designed to conceal this.

The Civil War is a war that was caused by the fact that slaves, making up a whole 1/8 of the entire population in the south, constituted a peculiar and powerful interest which threatened entrenched white interests.

Civil War is the same thing as a revolutionary war but the civil war is what it is called when it is won by the old nation while a revolution is what it's called when the new nation wins.