No I am referring to the Civil War, no need to sugar coat it.
In that case I'm:
sending back my fierce defiance and stamping on the cursed alliance!
Civil War: War between geographical sections or political factions of the same nation. {emphasis mine}
To call the conflict a civil war is to presuppose the outcome. The right of the southern States to secede and form the Confederacy was the central question being contended between the parties. Calling the War Between the States a "civil war" is done to hide the true causes of the war. Its just one of many ways modern elites poke southerners in the eye.
But I will admit that it is wisely, if unfortunately, written that the victors write the history.
Technically not a civil war. Carefully and properly used, a civil war is a word for a war to overthrow a government; for instance, the English Civil War is, in fact, a civil war.
The US "civil war" isn't. It's a war of independence.