Civil War side's no end to disaster and violent death (5)
I believe the answer is:
north
'civil war side's' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)
'no end to disaster and violent death' is the wordplay.
'end to' indicates one should take the final letters.
'and' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'violent death' becomes 'th' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
The last letter of 'disaster' is 'r'.
'no'+'r'+'th'='NORTH'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for north that I've seen before include "A 24 [STAR]" , "Pole" , "bridge player" , "Towards top of map" , "One of four bridge players" .)