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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 Colored Orphan Asylum was in New York City,m from 1836 to 1946.It housed on average four hundred children annually and was mostly managed by women. [1] Its first location was on Fifth Avenue between 42nd and 43rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan, a four-story building with two wings.
1863 – New York City draft riots, 120 killed and 2,000 to 8,000 injured [9] [31] 1871 – Second New York City orange riot, more than 60 dead, more than 150 wounded [4] 1741 – New York Conspiracy, 35 total executed as a result [2] 1712 – New York Slave Revolt, 31 total deaths consisting of 9 killed in the revolt and 23 executed as a ...
The Armies of the Streets: The New York City Draft Riots of 1863. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974. Costello, Augustine E. Our Police Protectors: History of the New York Police from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. New York: A.E. Costello, 1885. McCague, James. The Second Rebellion: The Story of the New York City Draft ...
Major General Charles W. Sandford (May 5, 1796 – July 25, 1878) was an American militia and artillery officer, lawyer and businessman. He was a senior officer in the New York State Militia for over thirty years and commanded the First Division in every major civil disturbance in New York City up until the American Civil War, most notably, the New York Draft Riots in 1863.
Los Angeles descended into chaos Wednesday night as belligerent baseball fans set a bus on fire while others clashed with cops and looters ran amok following the Dodgers’ World Series victory.
Daniel C. Carpenter (c. 1815 – November 15, 1866) was an American law enforcement officer and police inspector of the New York Police Department.He was one of earliest leading detectives on the police force during the mid-19th century and also had a prominent role in the Police Riot of 1857 and New York Draft Riots in 1863.
The headquarters was also the epicenter of the 1991 Crown Heights riots, which began after a 7-year-old boy was struck and killed by a car in the rabbi’s motorcade.