Boston Evening Transcript, Wednesday Evening, January 22, 1862

Boston, MA: Henry W. Dutton & Son, 1862. 49 x 68 cm. Civil War news. Poem ""At Port Royal--1861"" by John G. Whittier, from The Atlantic Monthly. Also, ""Song of the Negro Boatmen"" --""Oh, praise an' tanks! De Lord he come To set the people free, An' massa tink it day ob doom�"" Report of Rebel raid on home of Union officer in Tennesee, how they abused his wife and daughters, stripped the house of all possessions. Good news from battle in Eastern Kentucky. Zollicoffer and Crittenden. Report of how the Pirate Sumter escaped from the United States sloop Iroquis, as reported by the London Times. Report of General Lane's Texan Expedition, with goal of recruiting men, black, white or red, to ""wrest Texas from the confederate grasp."" Report of interview with President Lincoln by several gentlemen from Philadelphia and Boston; Lincoln's statement of how and why he appointed Stanton as Secretary of War. Editorial: ""No General in either army has succeeded in so short a time in contributing so much and such disreputable matter to the history of this war as Gen. Butler."" Long editorial fully excoriates the political general Butler. Telegraph Report: The Battle at Somerset, Ky. Trap Laid for the Flying Rebels. Who Killed Zollicoffer. Daring Courage of the Loyal Tennessee Troops. Movements of the Rebels: Proposed Arming of Negroes. Report that Union force of 700 blacks killed three rebel officers, two privates and wounded 50 members of the German southern regiment.. Newspaper, tears in some folds, good. . Catalogs: Civil War/Newspapers.