News from Washington: No Further Developments in the Trent Affair – 2-3
Affairs at Fortress Monroe: The Skirmish Near Newmarket Bridge – 3
From West Point: Improvements in Artillery – 3-4
Christmas Eve and Christmas – 4-5
Editorial: Our English Relations – 5
Editorial: Gen. Sherman and the Reporters (no not W.T., the other Gen. Sherman, T.W.-HJS) – 5-6
Editorial: Christmas, 1861 – 6
Editorial: The Hospital at Port Royal – 6
The Provincial Tempest – 6