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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jan 04, 1864

Page

2

Tom King Tours England With Muscle Display for $250

Gen Hancock is named as the Potomac army’s expected victim while Tom King tours England showing his physique for a weekly rate of $250.

Tom King England Gen. Hancock Potomac Army

City of Baltimore Passes Cape Race En Route to New York

From Liverpool December 23 and Queenstown 24 the City of Baltimore ships news at Cape Race. It carries 16 cabin and 30 steerage passengers. Other items note the steamship Louisiana arriving December 22, the Living Age freed after a $160,000 bond, and rumors about Archduke Maximilian and Napoleon seeking replacements in Mexico.

Cape Race City of Baltimore Liverpool Queenstown New York Associated Press Louisiana Living Age London Akyab Tuscaloosa South Long London Globe Lord Lyons Earl Russell King Heenan Paris London Times Maximilian Washington Napoleon

7th Maine Regt Goes On 35 Day Furlough From New York

One hundred fifty six officers and men of the original 7th Maine Regiment depart New York by New Haven train for Maine on a 35 day furlough. All but fifteen of the unit have reenlisted for the war.

New York Origial 7Th Maine New Haven Maine 7Th Maine Albany Nelson J Galway Eastern Light Monrovia Boston Phillips’ Reef Caicas Peacock East Caicas Baltimore Susquehanna East Northern Central Railroad Fortress Monror Butler Washington City of Hudson Western Metropolis Newport New Orleans Hampton Roads Philadelphia Ppeu Revans Commonwealth of Massachusetts S& Copartheien Dry Goods Commission Alanson Tucker Suffolk Moses Taft Uxbridge Worcester Commonwealth Said Tucker Taft A. D BF Mackintosh HENRY _A. GREEN General Partners Abel Horton

Union Artillery Bombards Folly Island After Charleston Attack

Advices from Folly Island report Union guns opened on Charleston Christmas morning lasting until 3 pm. Marblehead and Pawnee engaged rebel batteries in Stone Inlet with 2 killed and 5 wounded on Marblehead, rebels replying without much damage. General Gordon's detachment landed and seized the works. two and one half inch sea coast howitzers were removed by Commander Balch. Rebels suffered 1 killed and 5 wounded.

New York Folly Island Charleston Marblehead Stone Inlet Gordon Balch

Blockade running suspects held at Fort Lafayette

Two Wolff brothers Aaron and George and Messrs Hofff, Ring and Benjamin, and Eneas Bean are confined in Fort Lafayette for involvement in blockade running. They shipped goods to Nassau on brig Goodhue later captured by steamer Margaret and Jessie. J. D. Young and J. C. Budd are also confined on contraband shipping charges. Other visitors remain unnamed as the blockade running operation winds down.

New York Aaron George Wolff Messrs Hofffrung Benjamin Eneas Bean Fort Lafayette Nassau Goodhue Margaret Jessie J. D. Young J. C. Budd

Rebels Said Not to Attack Rail Line in Cold Weather

A Cumberland Maryland despatch says rumors of rebel movements exist but no evidence of planned attacks on railroad points. Reports note conscription hunts, several freeze deaths, and cold weather with 16 degrees below zero at eight in the morning. Sleighing is reported at Frostbury and Oakland.

Washington Virginia Peninsula Maryland McClelland South New England Middle Atlantic McClellan Burnside North Carolina Newbern Weldon Wilmington Goldsboro Raleigh Halleck Department of Missouri Buell Department of the Ohio Sherman South Carolina Georgia Butler Department of the Gulf Mississippi Kentucky Tennessee Cumberland Walker’s Gap Knoxville Savannah Fort Pulaski Charleston New Orleans Jackson Mobile Richmond Rappahannock Manassas Yorktown Wiliamsburg Hancock Mechanicsville Malvern Hill Harrison’s Bar McCall Goldsborough James Army OF the United States Missouri Pope Gen. Pope South Mountain Crampton New York Herald Frostbury Oakland

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