War of Secession
Americannoun
noun
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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
The War of Secession then—December, 1865—was entirely over; but the Mexican expedition of Napoleon III., the culminating incident of which, the capture of Mexico, we had seen celebrated at Cherbourg in 1863, was still lingering.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Petersburg, which awakes so many souvenirs of the War of Secession, is a pretty town scattered with beautiful villas.
From A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things by Max O'Rell
In 1863, the middle year of the War of Secession, the total population of the loyal states was about 23,491,600, of whom about one fifth, or 4,698,320, were adult males of military age.
From The Critical Period of American History by John Fiske
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