[frank ballenger]

I dislike the casual use of “civil war” in conversation on TV.

Prefer “the first Civil War” meaning the US 1860s.

Good, non-woke historian H.W. Brands book Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution (2021)
is good but adds to the confusion.

[johniegrad]

I dislike the casual use of “civil war” in conversation on TV.

We could call this “internecine fighting” instead.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Historian Barbara Tuchman called the Revolution the “First World War” in her excellent book “The First Salute.”

[Semper Vigilantis]

We called it ‘The War Between the States’ when we weren’t wound up - then it was ‘The War of Northern Aggression’.

[Red Badger]

Using the word ‘first’ indicates that there is another........

[AlaskaErik]

Prefer “the first Civil War” meaning the US 1860s.

I thought the war of that era was the War of Northern Aggression.