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The wars & local soldiers, 1861

226 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 12

The European War

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 23 October 1861 · page 2

Last Winter it was confidently predicted that we would have an European war in the Spring we have passed through so peaceably. The event was highly probable, and, for its coming…

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The Interpreter, a Tale of the Crimean War, Chapter Xxviii. La Dame Aux Camellias

Empire · Monday 28 October 1861 · page 3

Mr dear; you must go to this ball,' said' Sir Harry to his daughter, as they sat over their morning chocolate in a spacious room with a small glazed stove, very handsome, very luxurious, and very cold; ' You have seen everything…

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General Banks's Plan of Conducting the American War. (From the Chichago Witness.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 November 1861 · page 8

THE other day, N. P. Banks (then residing in this city) came into the Tribune sanctum to see our night despatches. In the course of conversation, which turned on the rebellion, Banks expressed himself…

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New Men-of-war. (From the Ti[?]ncs, August 26.)

Empire · Monday 4 November 1861 · page 3

WE shall get get by and by to a strange model of a man-of-war. Hitherto, notwithstanding all the modern inventions, there has been no great doviation from the old conventional type. A line of…

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The Interpreter. Tale of the Crimean War, by [?]J. White Melvillie. Chapter XXIX.—Continued. 'A Merry Masque'

Empire · Monday 4 November 1861 · page 6

[?] HAVE asked to speak to you, to wish you good-bye, I said. I am going away to-morrow. For my own sake I must stay hers no longer. I am going back to the East. I am well now, and anxious to be on service again. I have…

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The Civil War in America

Empire · Thursday 7 November 1861 · page 2

THE Times correspondent writes as follows from Washington, on the 24th of July:- Before breakfast I rode over the Long-bridge to Arlington. There were groups of soldiers,…

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The Interpreter, a Tale of the Crimean War, Chapter Xxx. Th[?] Golden Horn

Empire · Monday 11 November 1861 · page 3

'MR. MANNERS, I believe? I am afraid you do not recol lect me? 'Major Manners, sir: Major Manners—very much at your servico,' is the reply, in a tone of mild correction…

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The Wounded

Empire · Tuesday 12 November 1861 · page 3

Almost every train now arriving on the Pacific road, brings in numbers of the wounded in the late battle at Springfield. They are kindly taken care of in buildings in the city, the…

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Sick and Wounded Confederate Troops

Empire · Tuesday 12 November 1861 · page 2

A letter in the South Carolinian, dated Charlottesville, V[?]., August 3rd, says:- "Charlottesville is a city of refuge. Upon a population of 3000, with scarcely government…

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The Civil War in America

Empire · Tuesday 12 November 1861 · page 2

BY arrivals from San Francisco, yesterday, we have been placed in possession of news from the Belligerent States of America to the early part of September. The fuller particulars of…

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Later News of the War in America

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 November 1861 · page 2

VIA California, per the Achilles, we 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—her War and Her Policy. (From the Times, August 12th.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 November 1861 · page 3

THE Americans, we are told, are exceedingly anxious to know what is thought in England of their war and their policy, now that the campaign has been opened by a pitched battle. In one particular, but perhaps…

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Particulars of the Great Riot Among Secession Soldiers in Tennessee

Empire · Tuesday 12 November 1861 · page 3

The Memphis (Tenn.) Appeal gives an account of a serious riot that occured among a party of rebel troops at Grand Junction, in that State, on the 2nd ultimo. The story is as…

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The Myths of the American War

Empire · Friday 15 November 1861 · page 8

THE war has a stimulating effect upon the imagination, and a great many people deal in fancies, and suppose them to be facts of the most fixed character. At the commencement of hostilities a great deal was…

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Civil War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 November 1861 · page 2

General Beauregard stems to be possessed of that rare endowment—originality of conception. He is a kind of military Morphy. Hf made Bull Run a natural ditch, and the uplands…

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The War in America

Sydney Mail · Saturday 16 November 1861 · page 6

VIA California, pet the Achilles, we have sixteen days later, by Pony, from New York and Washington, her dates being to August 31. The Secretary of War has ordered the stoppage of…

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Trish Regiments in the War

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 16 November 1861 · page 1

The 37th New York Regiment (Irish rifles) was not present at the battle before Manages. It constituted a portion of the garrison at Washington. Lient O'Bierne was at New York for…

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The Indian Element in the American War

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 November 1861 · page 5

THE Confederated States of America have called on the Indian tribes ter aid them in their strife with the North, and several companies have been enrolled at Montgomery and New Orleans. The fact seems to…

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The Interpreter, a Tale of the Crimean War, Chapter Xxxii. a Turk's Hare[?]

Empire · Monday 18 November 1861 · page 3

As we neared the water's edge, my companion started and turned perfectly livid, as if labouring under some fearfully strong emotion. True to his self-command, however, he allowed no other outward sign to betray his feelings, In…

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SOLDIERS. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 November 1861 · page 3

SIR,—Having occasion to cross that portion of Hyde Park, opposite Bathurst-street, on Friday evening, about eight o'clock, I saw several (about ten) soldiers walking in the direction of the South Head Road;…

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