In my mind the best strategic level American Civil War game to date. The card driven system is great for bringing in the outside elements of the war into the game play.

Countries such as France, Holland and Sweden could soon reach a point where the Muslim population will create something akin to civil war, as it already has in the above mentioned nations.

Even though this conflict may start out as civil wars in a handful of countries, it could spiral out of control and spread too much of the continent, dragging in foreign fighters from the Arab world.

In the same spirit, I just told James something like this -- The Civil War was fought for a complicated mix of reasons including states' rights, slavery, and other things. He doesn't understand what all that means yet, but he knows it was complicated.

Today, we talked to two women who were forced to take up arms, when they were barely teenagers, in Liberia's bloody civil war.

When Florence and Jackie came to our studios and I heard their stories, I knew right away I did not want to forget. Union Civil War veterans were a major force for social, political, and cultural change in post-Civil War America.

Their political activism led to Republican political dominance for most of the next fifty years after the war.

When Civil War armies confronted each other, ordinarily the infantry was at centre stage. When armies were on the move, however, the cavalry generally played the more important role.