“The term “Civil War” is standard.”

For yankees, yeah. But even today no true southernor would be caught using the term.

Buddy – agree completely with your assessment of who did the fighting. Saw an interesting stat once that explained why Texas troops were so heavily involved in every theatre of that war (Lee’s favorite divisions, reportedly) even though in 1861 the population of Texas was still relatively small, there was very little slavery except near the Louisiana borders, and it was more than a thousand miles away from the main scenes of the conflict.

Gotta remember that at that time Texas was still the frontier, full of Indian fights, and the place where every man who wanted to carve out a place for himself was headed. Because of that, in 1861 70% of the Texas population consisted of males *under* the age of 30!!!

No wonder the place got the reputation it did! But if you want to build an army, that’s the kind of demographics you want to work with.