I'm soooo toast back there!
However, they loved orators and speechifying then - amazingly colorful language use. You'd have to know your Bible backward and forward. If you said your troops were marching through 'Egyptian darkness' to someone today, I doubt they'd know what you were talking about. One soldier described the rifle fire at Chickamauga as a 'cane brake burning' - we'd have to hone up our farm lingo. I'm not sure many people understand what backsliding is, for example - watch Three Godfathers (John Ford) where they're loading the horses! Ain't goin' ain't goin' and I got half a ton to back me up...!
The folk then did like pugilistic displays and a good wrassling match. To resolve the war, just send in Lincoln and Davis - not an unequal match except Lincoln would have to wear an eye patch. The South could match up their fire-eaters with the North's abolitionists, Forrest and Grant could have a horse race. (Think of the betting on that one!), give Cump and Joe a chess board. Wars are never fought by the people who start them but they should be.