I am sorry. I don't have that book but ill try my best. They consider it a more modern war because of the time. It is also because of several modernized inventions. For example, some cars, the cotton gin, and steam boats. People were escaping slavery and fighting for rights. There was also tons of new cultures coming from other people.
Thomas Sharp Spencer was a man of great physical strength, a giant in his day, well proportional, broad shouldered, huge in body and limb and <em>weighing nearly four hundred pounds.</em>