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The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, [3] were violent disturbances in Lower Manhattan, widely regarded as the culmination of working-class discontent with new laws passed by Congress that year to draft men to fight in the ongoing American ...
The following is a list of civil unrest in New York by number of deaths in descending order from most to least deaths. In cases where the number of deaths is uncertain, the lowest estimate is used. 1863 – New York City draft riots, 120 killed and 2,000 to 8,000 injured [9] [31]
Working-class white males, furious about the federal draft laws, rioted and attacked federal buildings and black neighborhoods. [5] The Colored Orphan Asylum was burned down by Irish mobs on July 13, 1863, during the first day of the New York Draft Riots. [6]
During the New York Draft Riots, Decker commanded the fire department, coordinating its operations throughout Manhattan.He was present at Third Avenue and 47th Street, on Monday, July 13, 1863, when the draft protests turned violent outside the Ninth District Provost Marshal's office.
It was the largest disturbance since the Astor Place Riot in 1849 and the biggest scene of gang violence until the New York Draft Riots of 1863. Order was restored by the New York State Militia, supported by detachments of city police, under Major-General Charles W. Sandford. [1]
The second of two columns focusing on the surrender of York to the Confederates in late-June 1863 – a pivotal moment in York County’s story.
John Alexander Kennedy (August 9, 1803 – June 20, 1873) was the superintendent of police for New York City, from 1860 to 1863. [1] He was in charge of the police response to the New York City draft riots in 1863, until he was badly beaten by the mobs. [2]
It's about how those lifelong Democrats – mostly Catholic, ethnic, union – began looking for a new home in the Republican Party. And it's about how that day changed American politics, perhaps ...