Meaning of secesh | Babel Free

Definitions

Secessionist, supportive of the Confederacy during the United States Civil War.

US, historical, informal

Examples

“This is true, for Mrs. Sherman has an idea that St. Louis is unhealthy for our children, and because most of the Catholics here are tainted with the old secesh feeling.”

“But he was mistaken; for as the current swept the bateau around the bend of the river, he discovered, to his astonishment and chagrin, the two secesh soldiers, who had left the picket post some time before, standing at convenient distances from each other and from the shore, in the water, ready to rescue him from the fate before him.”

“Nearly every building was draped, no matter whether its occupants were pinched or prosperous. Even secesh families hung crepe. Sometimes, the more secesh, the more crepe. It was the same way across the country, as Sarah Morgan, a young Baton Rouge belle, wrote in her diary. "The more violently secesh and the more thankful they are for Lincoln's death, the more profusely the houses are decorated with emblems of woe."”

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