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Riverina · The wars & local soldiers

The wars & local soldiers, 1862

2 stories in Riverina's papers

Select Poetry. a Yankee's Notion About Enlisting in the Civil War

The Wynyard Times · Tuesday 11 February 1862 · page 4

Thrash away ! you'll hare to rattle On them kettle-drums o'yourn, 'Taint a knowing kind o' cattle That is ketched with mouldy corn…

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The Horrors of the American War

The Wynyard Times · Friday 26 September 1862 · page 3

MR. F. Smith of Sandfield Lodge, Woodsley Stourbridge, has sent to the Times the following extract from a letter received by him from a Federal friend in the South…

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