Which sentence uses language appropriate for an informational article about the Civil War published in an academic journal intended for professors of American history? A lot of people fought in the Civil War and a lot of them would have rather been home instead of fighting other Americans. The Civil War was a war that was fought from 1861 to 1865. The folks who left America formed their own country and even elected their own president: a guy named Jefferson Davis. After several states seceded from the Union, hundreds of thousands of young men were conscripted into both armies.