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RB - I'm drawing the line at who's considered a citizen. Lincoln was famous for refusing to recognize that the rebellious states were anything except an inseparable part of the whole. So, if in nothing more than CiC's mind, the CW was at least in part a police action. Not to mention that the first shots were fired by some drunkards in Charleston.
I would argue that the Native American genocides were less ambiguous than you think, considering that the NA's weren't viewed as citizens but at best residents but more often squaters. That said, those may be the most obvious example of what we're discussing, questions of citizenship aside.
I'll agree that we've wandered far afield of the OP and perhaps this is the point that it should drop.
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