War of Secession
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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
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
It did not fall to them, either, to become afterwards especially conspicuous in the nearing War of Secession.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
To whomsoever due, in the decade immediately preceding the War of Secession there were two notable attempts at regeneration which had a profound influence upon the fortunes of that contest.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
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