ante-bellum

Her style was a great contrast to the earlier hero-worshiping and glorification of ante-bellum days in Virginia.

Then we, first elect of the bean, set ourselves to determine the status quo ante bellum.

You cannot judge the ante-bellum southern planter by him to-day.

She was the focus of all local superstition; one of the ante-bellum voodoos.

The ante-bellum militia code was declared in force, and all other laws in regard to the militia were repealed.