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The wars & local soldiers, 1884

4 stories in South Coast's papers

The Indian War Chief Logan

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 14 February 1884 · page 2

IN a dark, lonesome, dungeon, outstretched on the ground, Lay the last of the war chiefs, fast fettered and bound;…

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A Touching War Incident

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Wednesday 16 July 1884 · page 2

The Milwaukee Sentinel tells a war story, how a desperately wounded soldier was shot dead at his own request by a comrade: Henry J. Savage, one of the soldiers' home…

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Marie: A Story of the American Civil War

The Shoalhaven Telegraph · Thursday 7 August 1884 · page 1

AH What happy days these were— long, long ago new when we were young together, and the hours winged their flight so rapidly that, almost before we had realised that they had…

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General Turned Sentinel. an American War Story

The Bega Gazette and Eden District or Southern Coast Advertiser · Saturday 18 October 1884 · page 1

On one occasion a brigadier-general was returning to camp from a visit where he had partaken of a big dinner and of many potations, and on passing the post of one of…

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