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The wars & local soldiers, 1862

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General Thomas F. Meagher Killed, and Six Other Generals Wounded

Empire · Wednesday 26 November 1862 · page 2

Washington, September 19th.—An official despatch from General McC[?]llan, dated halfpast six this morning says but little occurred yesterday except skirmishing. Last night the…

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Archbishop Hughes on the War

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 26 November 1862 · page 1

Archbishop Hugbes delivered a most important and patriotic sermon on Sunday, the 17th inst., at the half-past ten o'clock Mass in St. Patrick's Cathedral. The edifice was crowded to repletion…

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Latest Intelligence. the War in America. News to 27th SEPTEMBER, via California

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 26 November 1862 · page 5

THE Oregon, Captain Wilson, brings us San Francisco papers to the 27th of September, and telegraphic news from Washington and New York to the 26th…

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War Episodes

Empire · Friday 28 November 1862 · page 3

THERE are some little episodes of the war, hidden away in obseure corrers of local Journals, that deserve the wider publicity of Europe for the light they incidentally throw on the system of terrorism that begins to prevail in every part…

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The War in America. the Great Mass Meeting at New York

Empire · Friday 28 November 1862 · page 8

THE New York World gives the following as the resolutions "adpoted unanimously" at the mass meeting, heldist New York on the 27th August last. They were proposed by General Wetmore:—…

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General Thomas F. Meagher Killed, and Six Other Generals Wounded. Washington, September 19th

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 29 November 1862 · page 1

Aft official dispatch from General M'Ciellan. dated half-past six this morning, says but little occurred yesterday except skirmishing. Last night the enemy shandoned his position, heaving…

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Latest Intelligence. the War in America. News to 27th SEPTEMBER, via California

Sydney Mail · Saturday 29 November 1862 · page 6

THE Oregon, Captain Wilson, brings us San Francisco papers to the 27th of September, and telegraphic news from Washington and New York to the 26th…

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The War in America. Rumoured Cessation of Hostilities. by Electric Telegraph. (From Our Queenscliffe Correspondent.) Saturday, 8 p.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 December 1862 · page 5

BY the Heloise, from San Francisco, which arrived this evening, we have news from New York to the 16th October. A despatch to the Californian Press…

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War in America. [From Our Melbourne Correspondent.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 December 1862 · page 5

THE files of papers by the Heloise, from San Francisco are very incomplete. It does not appear that any important movement had taken place since the news brought to Sydney last week by the Oregon, from San…

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The War in America. Rumoured Cessation of Hostilities

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 3 December 1862 · page 1

Saturday, 8 p.m. By the Heloise, from San Francisco, which arrived this evening, we have news from New York to the 6th October. A despatch to the Californian Press states—…

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Telegraphic News. the War in America. Rumoured Cessation of Hostilities. Melbourne, Saturday, 8 p.m

Sydney Mail · Saturday 6 December 1862 · page 1

BY the Elosia, from San Francisco, which arrived this evening, we have news from New York to the 6th October. A despatch to the California Press states:—"It is…

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The War in America

Empire · Wednesday 17 December 1862 · page 2

RESPECTING the raid of Stuart's cavalry on to Pennsylvania we have the following telegrams:— "Harrisburg, Friday, October 10, 7.30 p.m. "Governor Curtin has just received the following…

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The Civil War in China

Empire · Thursday 18 December 1862 · page 2

WE have Hongkong papers to October 31st, and are in debted for the following to the Overland Trade Report:— SHANGHAL—Contrary to expectation, the Taiping rebels…

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The Civil War in America. [From Our Special Correspondent.] New York, September 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 December 1862 · page 6

THE news which the steamers to Europe will convey to-morrow of the progress of the rebellion will be of the most startling kind, and well calculated to excite the hopes of the Southern sympathisers, that the time…

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The Fall of New Orleans. (From the First Year of the War. By Edward A. Pollard.)

Empire · Friday 19 December 1862 · page 2

WHEN it was known in Richmond that the Federal fleet, which, had so long, threadened New Orleans, had at last commenced, an attack on the Mississippi River for's, Jackson and St. Philip, no…

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Men-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 December 1862 · page 9

Fawn, 17 guns, Captain Cayter, at Hobart Town. Ha[?] 17 guns, Captain Su[?] at New Zealand. [?] 14 guns, Captain Jenkins, at Melbourne. [?] 6 guns, Captain Reilly, in Port Jackson…

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The Civil War in America. the Struggle in Maryland

Sydney Mail · Saturday 20 December 1862 · page 7

THE campaign in Maryland, the progress of which was being watched with so much anxiety at the date of our last publication, was brought to a close more suddenly than had been expected. Before a week elapsed after…

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More Beef for the Soldiers. (From the United Service Gazette, October 25,)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 December 1862 · page 3

"VITAL STATISTICS," that most valuable of modern sciences, when worked with correctness, has now fairly got hold of the army, and annually publishes its tables of strength and…

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