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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1864

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The War in Denmark

The Yass Courier · Saturday 23 July 1864 · page 4

IN accordance with the terms of the armistice, military operations are for the time suspended. While the conference was sitting at London on Monday afternoon, however, a naval battle was…

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The American Civil War

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 July 1864 · page 6

Recent Transatlantic news has revived the languishing interest of this country in the terrible conflict which is going on between the two sections of the republic. For four or…

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The Civil War in America

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 July 1864 · page 8

General Forrest's forces have captured Fort Pillow, on the Mississippi, by assault Four hundred out of he garrison of 600 men are stated to have been killed. After…

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(From the Home News.) the War in Schleswig

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 July 1864 · page 8

A DESPATCH from Copenhagen gives the following particulars of the evacuation of Fredericia :— General Landing received orders for the…

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[?]Ropean and American News. London, May 26. [?]E Conference.—war Prospects

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 23 July 1864 · page 6

THE CONFERENCE.—WAR PROSPECTS. THE horizon darkens daily. A tempest is [?]ently near at hand. The English government is draining the cup of humiliation…

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The Ashantee War. (Further particulars, from the Times correspondence.) Cape Coast Castle, Africa, April 15

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 30 July 1864 · page 7

Capo Coast Castle, Africa, April 15. As it is here I am, and must make the best of it; but unless you were on the spot and could see the result of a few weeks residence…

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New Zealand.—notes From the Seat of War

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 3 August 1864 · page 3

By the barque Constance, Captain Elliot, we have Auckland papers to the 14th ultimo, Taranaki to the 11th; Wanganui to the 9th; and Ilawke's Bay to the 5th…

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The War in America

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 20 August 1864 · page 6

We[?]an news has divided with the Con[?] and the anxious attention of Europe pat[?] the month. After some dozen in battles, marked by appalling…

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The Civil War in America

The Yass Courier · Saturday 20 August 1864 · page 3

OUR advices from New York extend to the 15th of June. Grant has been foiled in all his attempts to penetrate Lee's lines on the north of Richmond, and now appears to be beginning…

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Spirit of the Press.—peace or War

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 27 August 1864 · page 6

THE question, divested of the obscuring circumstances which months of discussion and passionate recrimination have thrown round it, is simply this:— Is England bound by…

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The War in Denmark

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 10 September 1864 · page 2

The Prussians have offected the passage of Alsen Sound in boats, conveying 3000 men at a time, under heavy fire of shells. The Danes fought gallantly, but without avail…

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The Civil War in America

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 September 1864 · page 7

The news from the seat of war in the trans-Atlantic states during the past month has been of a very gloomy complexion for the Federal cause. It really seems as if a…

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Prussian Men-of-war Capturing Danish Vessels

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 28 September 1864 · page 4

By the arrival of late vessels from Hong-kong we (Alta California) have printed advices down to the 28th May, and for Which we are indebted to Koopmanschap and Co…

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The Civil War in America

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 22 October 1864 · page 7

Slaughter, slaughter, slaughter—prodigal and profitless—is the burthen of every successive Transatlantic mail. The eye of the sickened spectator sees nothing but blood…

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New Zealand.—three Days' Later From the Seat of War

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 2 November 1864 · page 4

BY way of Neweastle, we have Auckland papers to the 11th instant. The Daily Southern Cross of that date says:—For the present, we understand,…

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America.—six Days Later From the Seat of War

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 9 November 1864 · page 4

THAT journal of the 21st August says:— To-day our despatches are brief, and present no marked features. Operations against the rebels in the Valley of the Shenandoah,…

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The War in America. Virginia

The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 17 December 1864 · page 4

The political prospect in America is confused and shifting in the extreme; but if one may assume that the presidential contest will be governed; even at the eleventh hour,…

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