Is the Civil War importance over exaggerated???

Its hard to really say that the Civil War has been exaggerated by the historians because we weren't there to see what was going on. In a way I think that it was a little over exaggerated. They make it seem like this huge "life changing" war. Some historians say that the war was this huge war that had to happen or the USA was going to crumble apart and never be what people thought it was going to be. These historians seem to exaggerate the whole deal and made it seem a lot more important then it might have been. Then there are those historians who say that "hey those other historians have really over exaggerated this issue." I think that these historians got away from what was really important during the war and the facts. So I guess i would have to agree with the historians that believe the Civil War has been over exaggerated because even though it was a war that helped bring the USA back together it doesn't have to be flaunted and made into such a big deal as some historians have made it. Many other events just as important have happened but none of them have been expressed so "wowly" by these same historians.