All Civil Wars are fierce and feral; but in their own way clean and pure, for Civil Wars are not fought over land nor money nor trade routes but VALUES. Consequently Civil Wars are Biblical, Shakespearean and Homeric in nature. And fascinating. The American Civil War is one of the most fascinating wars ever fought, trivia alone makes it fascinating. The first bit of trivia which intrigues one is that the Union Calvary Reserve in the Seven Days Campaign was commanded by Brig. Gen. Philip Cooke,  who was Jeb Stuart's father- in- law. Stuart was the legendary Confederate Cavalry commander.  Confederate General Jeb Stuart, had been so incensed that his father- in- law stayed with the Union, that he renamed his and his wife's, Flora, months'-old son, Philip St. George Cooke Stuart, after himself, James Ewell Brown Stuart Jr.  People took Civil War very seriously in those days. Jeb was mortally wounded in 1864. The Yankee father in law died in 1895, at the age ...