The American Civil war was actually a war for independence like the revolutionary war

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/07/walter-e-williams/was-1861-a-civil-war/

We call the war of 1861 the Civil War. But is that right? A civil war is a struggle between two or more entities trying to take over the central government. Confederate President Jefferson Davis no more sought to take over Washington, D.C., than George Washington sought to take over London in 1776. Both wars, those of 1776 and 1861, were wars of independence.