re: Check out the January issue of America's Civil War Magazine

This isnt just for you , It’s for ever one of you that think you have it all figured out. Not just about the civil war, but pretty much any topic that comes up on here. Here it is.......wait for it......you don’t.

The book Lee's Tigers has been updated and expanded.

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Revisionist history.

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How exactly is this "revisionist?"
Are you suggesting that the Tiger Rifles, recruited in New Orleans, did not serve as part of Wheat's Battalion, which also quickly became known as the "Fighting Tigers?" Are you suggesting that the Louisiana units serving in the Army of Northern Virginia did not eventually, collectively, gain the nickname as well?
Curious as to your primary sources on this since every credible, professional historian who has researched the topic supports that these things did indeed happen....and that the LSU football team was specifically named after them.

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Of all the great wars we were involved with, the civil was is the most forgettable. We basically put on a show for the world concerning our own stupidity.

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Huh? The entire civilized world was intently watching it and/or involved in their own internal struggles at the time. France was trying to take over all of Mexico and openly supported the Confederacy. England was very concerned, considering that the majority of the raw material for their textile mills came from the US South (and was close at one point to openly supporting the Confederacy as well). Italy had just gone through its own nationalist unification struggle and Germany was about to get one started with Prussia at the helm. The Civil War represents the US' part in Western Civilization's move to a firmer and more centralized nation-state paradigm that can be seen everywhere in Europe, North America, and Japan at the time.

The US was quickly rising as a major economic world power and the developed world was deeply interested in the events.

In military history, the US Civil War represents the definitive shift from the old "Napoleonic" model of combat to the modern "total war " model, which was fully realized in WWI. Grant and Sherman adapted to the modern, while Lee kept to the old.

As such, the US Civil War is not only a major event in US history but world history.

I would tell you to go back to school, but that hotbed of ignorance is probably where you got such a narrow minded idea to begin with.