34. I have a friend, who is in the army, who loves reading about the Civil War.
He has all the books of Shelby Foote's massive work on the war. He often points out the American Civil War as the first modern war and the most deadly Western conflict before WW1.
IMO the American Civil War can be compared to the European wars of the same period that unified Germany and Italy, it turned a federation of separate polities into a unified nation-state.
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