So about this second Civil War

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4. the civil war split many families.

quite a number of families had members fighting on both sides. sometimes it was out of belief or state loyalty, sometimes it was a deliberate strategy for the well-being of the family after the war.

some thing happened during the american revolution.

a colleague of mine is a descendant of soldiers in the american revolution. the family quite deliberately sent some children to fight for the british and some to fight for america. the idea is that whichever side won, the rest of the family (and their wealth) could be protected.

in the civil war, there were many regions that were ideologically split. for example, southern ohio, southern indiana, and southern illinois -- all technically part of the north, but with considerably sympathies for the confederacy.

the civil war was not, in reality, neatly split by geography nearly as much as basic high school history teaching suggests.