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

No account of Wisconsin's part in the War of Secession should, however brief, omit reference to a conspicuous participant, "Old Abe," the war eagle of the Eighth Regiment.

From Stories of the Badger State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

From the rich material offered by our War of Secession the caricaturists drew little more than the long, gaunt figure and the scraggy beard of Lincoln, and the cigar of General Grant.

From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber

A more impressive contrast to the readiness with which the demands of the government were met in the War of Secession can hardly be imagined.

From The Critical Period of American History by Fiske, John