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, were violent...

reasons. Irish Catholics after 1862 opposed the war, and rioted in the New York Draft Riots of 1863. The Democratic Party was deeply split. In 1861 most...

and the New York City draft riots were in direct response to the draft and were the first large-scale resistance against the draft in the United States...

cities, especially in parts of New York City, with its massive anti-draft riots of July 1863 and in some remote districts such as the Coal Region of...

City draft riots. Stores were looted and offices of newspapers which supported the Union were ransacked and burned to the ground. When the riots started...

Ohio, Draft Riots Archived 2015-12-22 at the Wayback Machine Draft protests occurred in scores of towns, but few reached the stage of a riot, and none...

Resistance to the draft was sometimes violent. In the North, nearly 100 draft enrollment officers were injured in attacks. Anti-draft riots in New York City...

Barnes, David M. (1863). The Draft Riots in New York, July 1863: The Metropolitan Police, Their Services During Riot. Baker & Godwin. pp. 5–6, 12. Foner...

is used. 1863 – New York City draft riots, 120 killed and 2,000 to 8,000 injured 1871 – Second New York City orange riot, more than 60 dead, more than...

sparked civil unrest as the war dragged on, leading to the New York City draft riots on July 13–16, 1863. The Provost Marshal General was recreated to administer...

chronological list of known riots. 205–186 – BC The great revolt of Egypt against Ptolemy V Epiphanes. 48 BC – 47 BC – Riots during the Siege of Alexandria...

realignments." In the film, the Draft Riots of July 1863 are depicted as both destructive and violent. Records indicate the riots resulted in more than one...

the early twentieth century. In July 1863, during the draft riots in Manhattan, Irish rioters attacked Blacks throughout the city and burned down the...

killed during the riot on July 4, 1857, in New York City's Lower East Side.[citation needed] New York City draft riots Orange Riots History of New York...

be quickly "stamped out". A week after the battle, the New York City draft riots erupted. Greeley and the Tribune were generally supportive of conscription...

New York Draft Riot of 1863, provoked by fears of labor competition and resentment of wealthy men being able to buy their way out of the draft, was one...

County Draft Riots, active resistance to the draft during the Civil War, Holmes County, Ohio 1863 – New York City draft riots, July 13–16, (anti-draft) 1864...

New York City draft riots during the American Civil War, and it was not surpassed until the 1992 Los Angeles riots 25 years later. The riot was prominently...

1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots, or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising) were a series of riots and civil disturbances...

violence and stop the rioters. Casualties were estimated as up to 1,000 killed or wounded. There were a few small scale draft riots in rural areas of the...

Riot. They allied themselves with the New York City Irish Dead Rabbits gang in looting New York City during the American Civil War in the Draft Riots...

took part in the Police Riot of 1857 and New York Draft Riots of 1863. Prior to the outbreak of violence at the Third Avenue draft office, Speight was the...

institutions, and religious buildings. Riots often occur in reaction to a grievance or out of dissent. Historically, riots have occurred due to poverty, unemployment...

Civil War, and served as chief artillery officer during the New York Draft Riots. He was born on August 24, 1887, in Wetzel County, West Virginia, USA...

New York City Police Riot of June 1857. There was chaos during the American Civil War, with major rioting in the New York Draft Riots. The Gilded Age brought...

by John Flaxman, it was inspired by a true story set in the New York Draft Riots of 1863. The title character, an Irish woman providing asylum for orphaned...

Dead Rabbits and fought against the Bowery Boys during the New York Draft Riots), with its remaining members dissipating or joining other Irish gangs...

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Conscription, also known as the draft in American English, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military...

1863, and many new enlistees were involved in suppressing the New York Draft Riots but those efforts failed and the enlistees were transferred to the 17th...