I saw several shot after they were wounded; as they were crawling around, the secesh would step out and blow their brains out.
The first intimation that the commanding officer received was from one of the black men, who went into the colonel's tent and said: 'Massa, the secesh are in camp.
I was lying a little way from a wounded negro, when a secesh soldier came up to him, and said: "What in hell are you doing here?
The secesh charged, and after they came over I saw one go a good ways ahead of the others.
He got on his hands and knees, and was crawling along, when a secesh soldier put his revolver to his head, and blew his brains out.
A secesh soldier came along, and wanted to know if I had any greenbacks.
The secesh soldier said: "You want to fight us again, do you?
I may be burned, but I cannot be melted; so if secesh succeeds, I throw in a cesspool my document of naturalization, and shall return to Europe, even if working my passage.
No French vessels ran anywhere the blockade; secesh agents found very little if any credit among French speculators.
What a devoted patriot this Sandford in Belgium is; he has continual itchings in his hand to pay a higher price for bad blankets that they may not fall into the hands of secesh agents; so with cloth, so perhaps with arms.
Europe recognizes faits accomplis, and a great deal of blood will run before secesh becomes un fait accompli.
Up to this day Secesh is the positive pole; the Union is the negative,--it is the blow recipient.
There may be some secesh French, but the bulk, if well managed, would never take a decided position against us as long as we were on friendly terms with Louis Napoleon.
A part of the young foreign diplomacy here have a very strong secesh bend; they consider the slaveholders to be aristocrats, and thus like to acquire an aristocratic perfume.
As we dare not expose their crimes, the public in Europe must come to this conclusion, that secesh may be right, and may begin to consider the North as having no principle.
As for the armaments of secesh vessels in Liverpool and the Bahamas, it is so perfectly in harmony with the English mercantile character that it is impossible for the government to stop it.
The commercial and piratical flag of the secesh is virtually in all waters and ports.
Almost all the articles in our favor are only defensive and explanatory; the offensive is altogether carried by the secesh press in England and in France.
Such a warfare is forbidden by Mr. Seward's policy; and perhaps if such a Weed should speak of corruption, some English secesh may reprint Wilkeson's letter.
Our men slept on their arms, but not a secesh appeared.
I think, though, the Secesh military power is getting more and more shaky.
Since they have begun to carry arms, the Secesh here and in Georgetown (about three fifths) are not insulting to them as formerly.
George describes Kentucky as a very fine country--says the people are about half and half, Secesh and Union.
It was taken by the Secesh in a cavalry fight, and rescued by our men in a bloody little skirmish.
Twixt dat secesh man und de scalyhorgs, wun is jamby ez big er fellum ez de tuther; he ergwine erbout punishin tuther fokses for gwine rong, und he, yu mout say, is er conwick hissef.
He had checked off twelve names and given the list to the solicitor with the heartless remark "Now we'll hang the old secesh higher than Haman, and you and I Mr. Solicitor will divide between us his homestead.
Here you fellow," said Laflin, "How much money have you been paid to find the old secesh guilty?
At this point of time an interruption came from one of the negro jurors to this effect, "Boss dere's wun secesh nigger dat sez he's agwine to hang de jurer epseps yu gin him wun mo dollar.
Is yu ergwine to fight for the secesh ef de war do take a fresh rise?
I'm ergwine to fling de whup und pull de ribbuns myself, und ole Semo de secesh jess got to git outen de grate house.
She said her master was a "big man" in the secesh army.
It must have been his wife who said: "I ain't neither Secesh nor Union--jest Baptist.
Windsor was a favourite retreat forSecesh enemies in the Civil War.
Sometimes the Secesh had it, and then the Federalists would drive them out; then the Confeds would take it, and so on.
They say Jeff Davis sent the stuff to 'em from the Government arsenal the Secesh captured at Baton Rouge.
At the tank we were met by battalion of secesh ladies with blackberries, huckle-berries, pies, milk, etc.
Visited the ruins of rolling mills, called on several secesh women, returned by sundown, had a gay time and good supper.
Found plenty of nice tomatoes in the old seceshcamp growing wild.
Motion was imperceptible and the banks but one monotonous belt of cotton-wood with here and there a chimney which we suppose is where some enterprising secesh is going to build.
The old harness was stiff and scattered, in poor condition for active service, as were also some of the horses (or at least so is my old gray charger, a secesh horse farm bred).
Shelled corn was got in plenty for horses from Secesh camp, but the boys many of them supped on corn and coffee.
Mortar from the secesh playing all day, the shells passing over our heads, two exploding over us, but did no damage.
Wallace, Hayes and myself started one morning, followed the secesh railroad running up south side of river to iron works.
But the 7th Division never had a good name among sutlers and Secesh merchants, and they have not improved here.
With the secesh [women] had an encounter before I left.
The majority of the people weresecesh and refused to give any information.
At this instant a force of our cavalry, who had been following the train at some interval, charged suddenly upon the secesh captors, who proceeded at once to make the best escape they could.
But Hooker at 11 at night made a desperate push, drove the secesh forces back, restored his original lines, and resumed his plans.
Nearly all the Secesh are back in Beaufort, confidently expecting that they will get their land back in season to plant next year.
Secesh are coming back quite freely nowadays and looking about as much as they please: Old Ben and young Ben Chaplin, several of the Pritchards, and Captain Williams, that owned a plantation on Ladies Island.
My new cook's husband was shot (and killed) as he ran away when the Secesh tried to make him go with them--how are they to understand the difference?
It is mere fortune that one is on one soil, another on another, kept in better order, perhaps, by the Secesh master.
The Secesh houses there are insufficient to accommodate them all, and they stow themselves in sheds, tents, and even in the open air, as best they can.
No, Secesh neber cut down trees, make nigger do it; poor white men cut 'em.
At Coffin's Point the people have shown the effects of having soldiers quartered there so long, though they were a less simple and quiet sort than these in Secesh times.
You have got to go North and Seceshcome back, haven't you?
You must excuse we niggers, we no sense, and Mr. Philbrick so patient; all Secesh on these islands couldn't make so much as he has with we.
I had given them corn-land for themselves, but they, in pursuance of a Secesh custom of planting a little corn between the cotton rows, had done so to an outrageous extent.
Ses I, "That may be a secesh docyment for all I know.
The Secesh are almost on Washington agin, and jest think what France and England will say.
One time we all thought that the Secesh would take us, bag and baggage; but we feel easier now, an everybody is hopin that the crysis is past.
The Kernel and I, however, keep cool, and we are getting things pretty well straightened out, so ef the Secesh come here now, they may wish they had never got so nigh Washington.
I'se made up my mind dat dese yere Secesh will neber be cibilized in my time.
One of them was heard to mutter, indignantly, "Why de Cunnel order Cease firing, when de Secesh blazin' away at de rate ob ten dollar a day?
There aint no secesh out on the watah, is there, Marse Marcy?
I have had trouble enough with my secesh neighbors.
If the secesh find out that there is a cow left on the place they will come for it.
Ever since all this trouble with the secesh began, nobody can trust his best friend.
I'd hev ornamented the trees with your karkises; the Southern buzzards wood hev grown fat on secesh korpses.
I found them obliging and sociable, and in a few minutes their fair hands, secesh as they were, had spread for me a bountiful repast, much to the delight of my ravenous appetite.
A few mornings after the night of our festival, several of my secesh friends called on me to ride out in the city.
The next morning I asked Lieutenant Downs for the privilege of taking three men with me to scout the neighborhood for information concerning the secesh woman's disloyalty.
I had frequently seen him in Memphis, during my stay there in the winter; but he knew me as my secesh acquaintances had known me--as a rebel Major.
Thar's a heap ob de secesh cavalry down by Massa's house, and dey are gwine to git you all!
I will here relate a little incident concerning my servant Spence, to show how well I succeeded in making my secesh acquaintances believe that I was a Southerner and a slave-owner.
The night passed away and we enjoyed a most refreshing sleep, under the "guarding influence" of our secesh friend.
The glorious old flag, under which our fathers fought in a cause most holy, now floats from its dome, in place of the late Secesh rag.
On the day previous, several citizens of London came into camp, and reported a large body of Secesh cavalry in the town.
But the best of all, by this victory we succeeded in freeing this part of Kentucky of the secesh army, much to the gratification of the good Union people.
When near the river, and in a deep ravine, they were suddenly fired upon by a number of Secesh Cavalry, and ordered to halt.
Much to our disappointment, found that the secesh had left three days prior to our arrival.
Wonder how the cry of "Where are those three damned Secesh women?
The servants say they broke into the house crying, "Where are those damnedSecesh women?
It's time you Secesh were taught that you can't go prowling about through the country imposing upon Union men whenever you feel like it.
We don't mean to intrude, but we do mean to get hold of that Secesh and the other chap, who for some reason of his own, is befriending him.
The Seceshwere too thick there to suit him and so he came up here, hoping to find everybody Union.
But it seems that some high-up Secesh has disappeared and nobody don't know what's went with 'em; and some folks do say that them fellers in the swamp had a hand in their taking off.
She's Secesh the very worst kind, but that needn't bother you none.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secesh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
