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Sydney · The wars & local soldiers
296 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 15
THE Federal Camp lay on a distant hill-side below Romney: through the dun winter shadows he could see points of light shifting from tent to tent; a single buglecall shrilled through the mountains…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Office has been furnished with a medical history of the war in the north of China, in 1860, from the pen of Dr. Muir, the principal medical officer of the expeditionary army. It was a motley host that went…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THIS is a question oftener asked than answered. We have been asked the question repeatedly; but if any one should ask us "When will the world end?" we should be just as able to give an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE men received them with great cordiality. They were nearly all convalescent, dressed wholly or partially, and employed in reading, playing checkers, or bantering each other. At the farthest corner one…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Surely war must be a fine thing. Nothing is more imposing than the march past of an army or part of an army—banners flaunting, bands playing, bayonets glittering in the sun—splendidly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The papers continue to furnish us with details of the great battle fought on the 17th instant at Antietam Creek, near Sharpsbury. From the accounts that reach us this engagement appears…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WE are indebted to Captain Howes, of the Wild Pigeon, for California papers to the 16th of November. These put us in possession of a month's later telegraphic news than that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →BY way of California, we have intelligence from New York to the 13[?]h of November, being a month later than the news by the mail. We proceed to extract from our San Francisco…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Our readers are aware that Gen. McClellan has been court martialed, and removed from the head of the army, for not following tip the Federal victory won at Antietam, and "Bagging" Lee…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This is a question oftener asked than answered. We have been asked the question repeatedly; but if anyone should ask us, "When will the world end ?" we should be just as able…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE economists, who call the army an useless force in time of peace, have surely never come out to the colonies, above all, to those where colonisation is beginning. Their assertion is, in fact, unce[?]singly contradicted in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →WE are permitted to publish the following private letter, from a member of the Senate of Kentucky to a friend. It is a plain story of the awful barbarity of the Rebels from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fawn, 17 guns, Captain Cayter, at Hobart Town. Harrier; 17 guns, Captain Sullivan, at New Zealand. Miranda, 14 guns, Captain Jenkins, at Melbourne. Pioneer, 6 guns, Captain Reilly, in Port Jackson…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Queen has been graciously pleased to signify her intention to confer the decoration of the Victoria Cross on the undermentioned non-commissioned officers of the Army, whose claims to the same have been submitted…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →When the military history of the Irish race comes to be written by some one endowed with heart and brain for such an undertaking this American civil war will furnish one of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →IT is generally understood that members of the Society of Friends are non-combatants; and decline to become soldiers or use viotent means of self defence. There are some venerable "Joes," retpecting their made of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE P. and O. Company's Steam Ship Northam, Captain G. S. Brooks, arrived at King George's Sound, at 6 a.m. on the 8th, having left Point de Galle at 6 p.m., on the 23 rd January…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fawn, 17 guns, Captain Cayter, at Hobart Town. Harrier, 17 guns, Captain Sullivan, at New Zealand. Miranda, 14 guns, Captain Jenkins, at Sydney. Pioneer, 6 guns, Captain Reilly, in Port Jackson…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →THE excitement of the elections is passed, and people begin to ask themselves in what way and to what extent will the new order of things effect the prosecution of the war for the suppression of the rebellion. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →THE excitement of the elections is parsed, and people begin to ask themselves in what way and to what extent will the new order of things effect the prosecution of the war for the suppression of the rebellion. The…
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