“…That there was no peaceful settlement to the issues and the distort views of historical events.”

Not sure what you mean by "peaceful settlement." Are you blaming the war on the Federal govt for failing to just stand by and let the Southern states waltz away from the Union?

Or by peaceful settlement, do you mean true reconciliation after the war was over? How difficult the latter must have been with folks like Maj Innes Randolph, CSA--if he’s any indication of popular sentiment (which I think he probably was).

On the other hand, when a few pragmatic ex-Rebels, such as Mosby I’ve recently heard, and of course Longstreet, did try to courageously work with the new govt to smooth reentry of the South back into the community of states, they were branded as scalawags, subject to character assassination plots and vilified to this very day. (Am speaking of Longstreet specifically, the premier scapegoat of the Lost Cause myth, according to W G Piston in his book "Lee's Tarnished Lieutenant.")

But consider the famous song penned by Maj. Randolph, whose sentiments were fairly representative of most Southerners at that time, including I suppose John Wilkes Booth (in theory only since he apparently was a shirker). This sentiment is even shared by some folks today it would seem:

“Oh, I'm a good old Rebel, now that's just what I am,
For this "Fair Land of Freedom" I do not give a damn!
I'm glad I fit against it, I only wish we'd won,
And I don't want no pardon for anything I done.

“I hates the Constitution, this Great Republic, too,
I hates the Freedman's Buro in uniforms of blue,
I hates the nasty eagle with all his brag and fuss,
The lying, thieving Yankees, I hates 'em wuss and wuss!

“I hates the Yankee nation and everything they do,
I hates the Declaration of Independence, too,
I hates the "Glorious Union" , 'tis dripping with our blood,
I hates their striped banner, I fit it all I could.

“I followed old Marse Robert for four years, near about,
Got wounded in three places, and starved at P'int Lookout;
I cotched the "roomatism" a'campin' in the snow,
But I killed a chance o' Yankees, and I'd like to kill some mo'.

“Three hundred thousand Yankees is stiff in Southern dust!
We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever and Southern steel and shot,
I wish they was three million instead of what we got.

“I can't take up my musket and fight 'em now no more,
But I ain't a'gonna love 'em, now that is sarten sure;
And I don't want no pardon for what I was and am,
I won't be reconstructed, and I do not care a damn!

“I won't be reconstructed! I'm better now than them,
And for a carpetbagger, I do not give a damn.
So I'm off for the frontier, soon as I can go,
I'll prepare me a weapon and start for Mexico.”

Now George, I happen to know that you aren’t one of those who buys into this 100%, I was just trying to make the point that not all Rebs, in fact many, were interested in any kind of peaceful settlement or reconciliation.