ante-bellum
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Both Burnet and Rhett are maternal family names famous in ante-bellum days.
From Time Magazine Archive
Louisiana's Greek Revival Belle Grove, one of the most beautiful of ante-bellum plantation mansions, was burned to the ground by vandals as it stood abandoned.
From Time Magazine Archive
Readings by Negro actors of excerpts from the works of ante-bellum Negro writers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Life at Glen Lily, the general's 1,000-acre estate near Munfordville, Ky., went on in much the same spacious ante-bellum way.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it outgrew the baleful title during the war, and has lost almost every trace of its ante-bellum personnel.
From Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life by King, Charles
