How Do You Fight a Civil War?

How was o civil war even possible to be fount united states without total annihilation? Whoever's the sitting president the party, how can anybody reasonably rise up like a bunch of dudes like wat wit some, you know, our home arsenals is not. I think if it came to that level of violence, yes, it's hard for me to say. And i again, like you would really have to kind of ask someone who's like an expert on the military. All i can give you are my like, dark, twisted fantasies like, i don't know, i guess i imagine, like, like,  the nightmare scenario is you've got like, cavalcades up