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The wars & local soldiers, 1861

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The Civil War in America. Evacuation of Harpur's [?]Erry by the Southern Forces. —Repulse of the Federal Troops Near Fort Monro

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 August 1861 · page 2

American news to the 15th June has been received. The lateat intelligence is of a more important character than any that has yet been received since the commencement of the war…

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Foreign Intelligence. the Civil War in America. (From the Home News, June 26

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 17 August 1861 · page 6

According to the Washington correspondence of the New York Times the Federal Government were quite alive to the dilemmas of the "situation." The correspondent of that journal says:—"The government is…

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The American Civil War

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 24 August 1861 · page 6

The following partionlars, which we copy from the London correspondence of the Melbourne Argus, under date June 26, supply some intelligence of interest not given in the summary we recently published from the…

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The Civil War in America

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 19 September 1861 · page 2

According to intelligence which comes down to the 20th July, the Federal armies were operating in three great columns; the largest, which comists of some 60,000 under General H'Dowall, has advanced to about…

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The Civil War in America. (From Wednesday's Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 21 September 1861 · page 6

The San Francisco Daily Evening Bullentin of 27th July, adverting to the progress of the war, and the continued success of the Federal armies, seems at a loss to understand what the Secessionists mean. The…

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Latest From the Cape of Good Hope. War at Natal

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 28 September 1861 · page 2

We (Empire) have Cape papers to the 1st August. Intelligence of Sir George Grey's appointment to the Government of New Zealand had been received, but a native war having broken out at Natal, the Parliament were endeavouring to…

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Later News of the War in America

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 14 November 1861 · page 2

Vi[?] California, per th[?] Achilles, we ([?] M. Herald) have sixteen days later, by Pony, from New York and Washington, her dates being to August 31. The news, though not particularly important, is…

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America. [?] War

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 5 December 1861 · page 4

By the Electra we have. American news, per pony, via California, to the 23rd of September. From the telegrams of the San Francisco Weekly Herald we quote as follows:…

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Maitland Mercury. Thursday, December 26, 1861. the American War

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 26 December 1861 · page 2

WE have read with considerable interest th[?] articles and comments in the English papers brought by this mail, on the progress and position of affairs in America. It does not seem to…

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