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The wars & local soldiers, 1864

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Stanzas from the Seat of War

Sydney Punch · Saturday 6 August 1864 · page 4

MY mind's in a state of most horrible doubt, Which is worse than the direst reality,--For I can't find out Whether JONES escorts LAURA so fondly about…

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The New Zealand War. Auckland, July 21st

Sydney Mail · Saturday 6 August 1864 · page 9

IT would perhaps be difficult to give people at a distance anything like a true idea of the state of things in this province and colony at present. Everything is doubt and uncertainty in the…

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America. Progress of the Civil War. News to May 30

Sydney Mail · Saturday 6 August 1864 · page 12

THE barque Coya, Captain Paige, brings San Francisco papers to the 31st of May, and telegraphic news from the seat of war to the 30th. We quote from the Daily Alta California the following…

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America. Progress of the Civil War. News to June 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 August 1864 · page 5

THE barque Clodian, Captain Phillips, brings Californian papers to the 9th of June, and from Washington and New York to the 7th. On Tuesday, the 7th of June, the Union National…

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The War in America. Nine Days Later. the Federal Advance on Richmond. Operations in Georgia

Empire · Monday 8 August 1864 · page 8

WE have been favoured with San Francise papers to the 7th June, received by the Clodian. The telegraphic intelligence from New York comes down to the previous day. June…

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Lamentable Consequences of the War

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 10 August 1864 · page 2

Among the results of the war to which we look with special apprehension and solicitude, is its effect on the women of America, growing out of the almost incalculable depletion of the industrial…

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The War in America

Empire · Thursday 11 August 1864 · page 5

The last advices report that Grant has again changed his front, shifting his centre of operations from the north-east to south of Richmond. Grant was thus in immediate contiguity with…

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Arrival of the June Mail at Adelaide. War with Denmark Resumed. Neutrality of England. Our Relations with America. General Grant Besienging Rich Mond. Sinking of the Alabama. [From Our Adelaide Telegraphic Correspondent]

Empire · Thursday 11 August 1864 · page 5

THE Mail steamer Bombay arrived at King George's Sound on the 2nd instant, and sailed for Galle at 9 p.m. same day. The Northam would leave the South at 2 p.m. on the 6 h…

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Arrival of the Balclutha at Adelaide, with the English Mail, Per Northam. News to 4Th July. Unsuccessful Result of the Conference. Expected Defeat of the British Ministry. Renewal of Hostilities Between Denmark and Germany. Capture of Alsen and Occupation of Jutland. Destruction of the Alabama by a Federal War Steamer. Death of Smith O'brien. Retreat of Grant Over the James River. Gold in New York, 210. 40,000 Female Wanderers in New York. Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law. From Our King George's Sound Telegraphic Correspondentt.] Adelaide, Wednesday, 6 a.m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 August 1864 · page 5

THE Balclutha arrived at Glenelg, at 2 o'clock this morning, after a passage of ninety-four hours from King George's Sound. Her passage down was 104 hours; she experienced…

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Sir George Grey's Despatches on the War and Confiscation. (From the Daily Southern Cross.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 August 1864 · page 8

UNDERNEATH we reprint three important despatches from Sir George Grey to the Duke of Newcastle on the native rebellion and the proposed plan of military settlement and confiscation. These were written in…

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The War in Denmark. (From the Daily News.) Copenhager, May 9

Empire · Saturday 13 August 1864 · page 3

THOUSANDS of well-informed people in England are perhaps more or less confused between histori[?]al impressions, which make the Danes a nation of ferocious pirates, and recent…

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Arrival of the English Mail, News to 4th July. Unsuccessful Result of the Conference. Defeat of the British Ministry. Renewal of Hostilities Between Denmark and Germany. Capture of Alsen and Occupation of Jutland. Destruction of the Alabama by a Federal War Steamer. Death of Smith O'brien. Retreat of Grant Over the James River. Gold in New York, 210. 40,000 Female Wanderers in New York. Repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law. Adelaide, Wednesday, 6 a.m

Sydney Mail · Saturday 13 August 1864 · page 9

THE Balclutha arrived at Glenelg, at 2 o'clock this morning, after a passage of ninety-four hours from King George's Sound. Her passage down was 104 hours; she experienced…

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America. the Civil War in America. Grant Moving to the South of Richmond

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 August 1864 · page 3

CUR advices from New York extend to the 15th of June, Grant has been foiled in all his attempts to penetrate Lee's lines on the north of Richmond, and now appears to be beginning new combinations. The fight on Friday the…

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Foreign Intelligence. Germany and Denmark. [Failure of the Conference.—the War to Be Resumed

Empire · Monday 15 August 1864 · page 3

THE faint hopes which had been enterlained during the sittings of Conference have finally disappeared, and the war will recommence without delay. At the meeting of the Conference on the 18th instant, a propesal to…

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The American War. the Late News. [Communicated]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 August 1864 · page 5

SINCE General Grant began active operations in the field, as commander-in-chief of the Federal armies, everything has assumed a different aspect. The "facetious old…

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The War in America. the Battles Before Richmond.—frightful Loss of Life

Empire · Thursday 18 August 1864 · page 2

THE special correspondent of the New York Times gives the following account of the engagement before Richmond on the 3rd of June:- "In saddle at four o'clock in the morning, the…

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Forces at Our Command in Case of War. (From the Army and Navy Gazette, June 25.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 August 1864 · page 5

WHILE the great question of peace or war ia hanging in the balance; while our contemporaries are eagerly scanning every indication of the course the Cabinet of England may adopt, it may be well for us, fulfilling…

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England and the American War

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 20 August 1864 · page 4

Already in New York the Abolitionists vote that England has sunk to the rank of a secoud-rate Power, and that France, that beards, the Munroe doctrine, is the chief State of Europe…

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Men-of-war on the Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 August 1864 · page 4
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Harrier, 17 guns, Captain Sullivan, at New Zealand, Ordered home. Miranda, 14 guns, Captain Jenkins, at New Zealand, Eclipse, 4 guns, Captain Mayne, al New Zealand…

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