War of Secession
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Reminding the assembled U. S. Laborites that "the fathers of American liberty allowed precious little democratic freedom during the War of Secession," he referred to the ogre-like pictures drawn of Bolshevism in foreign countries.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her environment, explained Dr. Tucker, had been the protected environment of the better class in Virginia during the period shortly after the War of Secession.
From Time Magazine Archive
Following this I had written by request a volume on the Navy in the War of Secession, entitled The Gulf and Inland Waters; my first appearance as an author.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
We have seen all these points amply illustrated since the War of Secession.
From The Critical Period of American History by John Fiske
But she was not reproduced, and remains to memory only; an incident of the speculative views and doubting progresses of the decade before the War of Secession.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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