It's an interesting subject once you get beyond the PC drummed into peoples heads over what it was actually about. There's a lot of history as well. Even the battles.
I cannot recall a single Free Republic Civil War thread that has ever gotten beyond endless arguments about the political justifications of the war and charges and counter-charges of "treason", "slavery", "Lincoln was a tyrant", "Davis should have been hung", etc., etc. ......
It seems as if FR Civil War threads are always firmly stuck in either March 1861 or May 1865.
It would be nice to be able to have a Civil War thread that dispassionately discussed generalship, campaigns, tactics, individual exploits, individual failings, camp life , camp followers, the home fronts, etc. without rehashing the political fire-breathing on either side of the Potomac for the 947th time.
You said it all, man.