Wikipedia is less useful than toilet paper. It is so politicized and bent towards one point of view in everything and in every way. Sad, because it was a neat idea...like all of the Leftist ideas, it sounded great, but failed when implemented.
The American Revolutionary War was America's first civil war. It was Tory Loyalist vs. Patriot Rebel, all from the same towns, same counties, same colonies, same families, from one end of the colonies to the other end. Whether we call it a civil war is immaterial; the net result was that neighbors were shooting at each other, like in a civil war. America nearly fought a civil war in 1794 over the issue of slavery, but postponed the inevitable clash by leaving the issue up to new states as they were admitted to the union. Bleeding Kansas etc. Even as the Plains Indians were starting to really fight back, too little too late, too primitive. None of this is worth re-litigating, because those of us here probably have a lot more in common than what divides us, and another civil disturbance seems to be looming ahead
