War of Secession
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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
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
Before the War of Secession, and indeed for twenty years after it, the United States never inclined to the maintenance of squadrons, properly so-called.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
We have seen all these points amply illustrated since the War of Secession.
From The Critical Period of American History by John Fiske
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
