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
My father, by the personal contact of teacher and taught, knew almost every one of the distinguished generals who fought in the War of Secession, on either the Union or the Confederate side.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
From there she crossed the Atlantic; but by the time of her arrival the War of Secession was ended by the surrenders of Lee and Johnston.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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 Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
