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The wars & local soldiers, 1862

11 stories in Murray's papers

Poetry the British Volunteers’ War Song

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 3 January 1862 · page 4

Oh, spite of each menace from over the sea, And the boasts of the threatened invader Our bulwarks are [?] And we’ll keep the old land,…

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Declaration of War War America Point De Galle, Dec. 23, 1861

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 15 January 1862 · page 2

Serious difficulty between England and Northern States of America. War not improbable. Export of saltpetre from England prohibited. Great excitement prevails…

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Four Days’ Later News From England. Probable War with Northern States of America. [By Electric Telegraph.]

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Tuesday 25 February 1862 · page 2

The Formosa, which left the Mauritius January 6th, brings four, days’ later intelligence, viz., to December 1st. The formal opinion of the legal advisers of…

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Later News From England. Death for Prince Albert. Prospect of War with the Northern State of America. [By Electric Telegraph.] Sydney, Thursday afternoon

The Pastoral Times and Southern Courier · Friday 28 February 1862 · page 3

News from England has been received in Melbourne this morning, [?] the Mauritius, to 26th December. Prince Albert died of typhus fever, at…

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Death of H.R.H. Prince Albert. England Preparing for War. “Banner” Office, Thursday, 12.30 p.m

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 1 March 1862 · page 2

The following Telegram is from our Melbourne Correspondent:— Melbourne, 12 noon. We have English news via…

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The War in America. New York, Jan. 15, Morning

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 19 March 1862 · page 4

In Congress during the discussion on the bill for making an appropriation to send American goods to the English Exhibition, Mr. Lovejoy made the following remarks:—…

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An Incident of Civil War

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Wednesday 26 March 1862 · page 4

Tbe Lynchburgh Republican publishes the following incident, remarkable alike for its singularity as well as for its melancholy fulfilment to the brother of one of the parties…

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The Civil War in America

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Saturday 10 May 1862 · page 3

New York, 21st January.—Within a little while the assurances that something is going to be done, often trusted to and often falsified during the weary months that have rolled over us sinco July last, have…

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The American War

Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Echuca Chronicle · Saturday 23 August 1862 · page 4

SINCE the date of the intelligence brought by the English mail of May, last month, many events have occurred on the American continent but they are destitute of that decisive…

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English News. the American War

Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Echuca Chronicle · Saturday 13 September 1862 · page 3

THE “Bombay arrived at Melbourne last Monday morning, bringing European intelligence to the evening of the 26th July. The news from America’s of a most important…

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The American War. [From the Times 23Rd September.]

Pastoral Times and Deniliquin and Echuca Chronicle · Saturday 22 November 1862 · page 4

ALTHOUGH events are moving with great rapidly in America, yet we must wait a few days to learn the true character of the operations which have begun in Maryland. The reports which…

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