Description TEXT IN FRENCH If there's one conflict that was remarkable from a lot of points of view, it was the American Civil War, better known in France as the War of Secession.
In this war the armies of the South opposed those of the North - the Union - of the almost hundred-years old republic of the United States of (North) America; it remains in the annals as the last classic war - in certain aspects the heir to the Napoleonic wars - and the first real modern wa.