Citations:secesh


 * 1866, Charles Graham Halpine, Baked Meats of the Funeral: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Speeches, Histories, and Banquets, page 165:
 * By this time the John Seceshes of St. Louis were in full force in the office and main corridor of the hotel. They were anxious, for they had heard whispers of bad news to their cause; and they were also anxious as to the state of their friends ...
 * 2001, Tyler Anbinder, Five Points: The 19th-century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum (Simon and Schuster, ISBN 9780684859958), page 297:
 * &quot;The Boy Who Commands That Pretty Lot Recruited Them for the Seceshes&quot; In mid-December 1860, as South Carolina prepared to secede from the Union, a strange advertisement appeared in the New York Herald: The captains of all the ...
 * 2010, Harold Holzer, Craig Symonds, New York Times Book of the Civil War 1861-1865: 650 Eyewitness Accounts and Articles (Black Dog & Leventhal, ISBN 9781603763769):
 * our minds to get &#39;em, and we charged, yelling like bloody h-l, drove the seceshes back a deuced sight quicker than they come, and popped &#39;em down at every shot. But when we&#39;d got the guns the fellers didn&#39;t come to hold &#39;em, and of course ...
 * 2012, George Black, Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone (St. Martin's Press, ISBN 9781429989749), page 118:
 * The seceshes had no intention of bending to federal law, if and when it arrived. They went wild at news of these Union defeats, and drunken horsemen set fire to the Stars and Stripes. Two years later, Lincoln&#39;s assassination prompted dancing ...