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War of Secession

American  
War of Secession British  

noun

  1. another name for the (American) Civil War

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

There was no marked change up to 1861, when the War of Secession began.

From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)

His sympathies during the War of Secession, were strongly in favor of the Union cause, the happy termination of which he did not live to witness.

From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

A more impressive contrast to the readiness with which the demands of the government were met in the War of Secession can hardly be imagined.

From The Critical Period of American History by Fiske, John

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