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The Draft Riots End in a Sea of Blood
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Tuesday July 14, 1863 was the second day of the Draft Riots. Early that…
Convulsion of Violence: Day One of the New York Draft Riots
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Editor’s Note: I have inserted an important discussion of the riot phenomenon in…
The New York City Draft Riots Begin
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook The months following the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg had been days of desperate re-examination by…
Before the Draft Riots: The Cultivation of Division
by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook In 1860, immigrants made up nearly half of the population of New York…
Five Points on the Edge of the Draft Riots
by Patrick Young, Esq. Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Five Points was the most economically downtrodden neighborhood of all of New York. When starving…