As you should. People take that topic way to personal. It’s our history and both sides have heroes, villain and the truth of it all.
CW battles were extremely bloody over much shorter periods time than modern warfare for US troops. Now WW1 was a meat grinder for Europe.
I don’t venerate the Confederacy any more then I do the Nazis. Or any other political entity that felt itself superior because of some notion of politics or race. The Civil War was a dark, violent and tragic period in American history and Davis and his Fire Eaters and the Southern power elites who clamored for it have the blood on their hands.