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Draft riots, Civil War


Subject History

Place Northern America » United States of America

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781577180999.1997.x


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On 13 July 1863, in New York, several thousand working-class, Irish immigrants began attacking officials drafting men for the US army. Mobs lynched a half-dozen blacks, burned the Negro orphanage, looted pro-Republican and pro-abolitionist newspapers, and destroyed federal offices. US troops sent from G ettysburg suppressed the disorders by firing into the crowds on 15–16 July. Two policemen, 8 soldiers, 11 blacks, and 84 rioters died. Enforced by 20,000 troops, conscription resumed peacefully on 19 August, but New York's city council paid to hire substitutes for all men drafted, in order to avoid further violence. The draft riots claimed more deaths than any other US civil disturbance ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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