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In the late Americanʹwar the Unionists were so called—i.e. those northern states which combined to resist the eleven southern or Confederate states (q.v.).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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