Omly a total ass would come to that conclusion. And lately the National Review has a flood of them.
First Confederates then Washington and Jefferson.
The war in 1861 1865 was NOT a Civil War.
It was a war BETWEEN THE STATES.
More accurately it was the War of Rebellion or War of Southern Rebellion. Take your pick.
A Civil War is defined as “a war between citizens of the same country”
The CSA really (really, really, really) wanted to be a separate country. If they had won the war, they would have been. They didn’t, though, and therefore it was a Civil War (failed rebellion, really).
Want to define what type of war it was, win the war.