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
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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.
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William Ferebee's family alone furnished six members of the Legislature, three Revolutionary officers, and one Colonel in the Confederacy in the War of Secession.
From In Ancient Albemarle by Pugh, Mabel
It did not fall to them, either, to become afterwards especially conspicuous in the nearing War of Secession.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
Such an one was Horace Greeley, who, in the days before the War of Secession, made the New York Tribune a power in America.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount