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
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)
A few houses were built; but during the War of Secession were removed to the Missouri side.
From Travels in the Interior of North America, Part I, (Being Chapters I-XV of the London Edition, 1843) Early Western Travels, 1748-1846, Volume XXII by Maximilian, Alexander Philipp
We have seen all these points amply illustrated since the War of Secession.
From The Critical Period of American History by Fiske, John
