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Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker: Once I heard that they were seceding, I was very sad, because I knew the toll of civil war.

From Washington Post • Feb. 26, 2021

Let it be forever remembered that, while churches were severed and states were seceding, the Masonic order remained unbroken in that wild and fateful hour.

From The Builders A Story and Study of Masonry by Newton, Joseph Fort

The Union was breaking, the Southern States were seceding, treason was rampant in Washington, and the Government was bankrupt.

From Hero Tales from American History by Roosevelt, Theodore

One by one the slaveholding States were seceding from the Union.

From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by Julian, George W.