Lexicographical Neighbors of Seceshes
Literary usage of Seceshes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Diary North and South by William Howard Russell (1863)
"A soldier standing near me, pointing out Kerrigan's corps, said, "The boy who
commands that pretty lot recruited them first for the seceshes in New York, ..."
2. The Life of Charles Loring Brace: Chiefly Told in His Own Letters by Charles Loring Brace (1894)
"The seceshes fought with frightful yells, and were well covered. It is curious,
though they have retreated steadily now for nine miles very ..."
3. Public Education in the South by Edgar Wallace Knight (1922)
"He wanted "loil [loyal] school and loil children," but he did not want "dis claw
to commodate de prejudices of rebels and seceshes," because he regarded ..."
4. George Palmer Putnam: A Memoir, Together with a Record of the Earlier Years by George Haven Putnam (1912)
"Here in Berkshire there are more "seceshes" than I had believed possible in New
England. I want to enlighten them here, where they consider themselves near ..."
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