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The New York Draft Riots began on July 13, 1863. This week I wanted to recall that horrible time with five articles I wrote on the riots in 2013. The first article looks at the most famous, and infamous, immigrant neighborhood in the days before the riots began. The Five Points was the locus of New York’s Irish community. Famous, and famously misrepresented, the demolished neighborhood is New York’s modern Foley Square and Chinatown. http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/five_points_on_the_edge_of_the_draft_riots
The second article in our series on the New York Draft Riots looks at the climate of discord in New York City in the middle year of the Civil War:
http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/draft_riots_the_cultivation_of_division
There are many legends about the Draft Riots, but the third article gives you the documented facts about the beginning of the riots on July 13, 1863.
http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/the_new_york_draft_riots_begin
After beginning as an anti-draft protest, the New York riots quickly descended into a violent outburst against police, the wealthy, and the city’s African Americans. Read about New York during its terrible trial on the afternoon of July 13 and the morning of July 14, 1863.
http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/convulsion_of_violence_in_new_york_draft_riots
The final day of the Draft Riots, July 15, 1863, was one of the bloodiest in New York history.
http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/the_draft_riots_end_in_a_sea_of_blood
The second article in our series on the New York Draft Riots looks at the climate of discord in New York City in the middle year of the Civil War:
http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/draft_riots_the_cultivation_of_division
There are many legends about the Draft Riots, but the third article gives you the documented facts about the beginning of the riots on July 13, 1863.
http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/the_new_york_draft_riots_begin
After beginning as an anti-draft protest, the New York riots quickly descended into a violent outburst against police, the wealthy, and the city’s African Americans. Read about New York during its terrible trial on the afternoon of July 13 and the morning of July 14, 1863.
http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/convulsion_of_violence_in_new_york_draft_riots
The final day of the Draft Riots, July 15, 1863, was one of the bloodiest in New York history.
http://www.longislandwins.com/columns/detail/the_draft_riots_end_in_a_sea_of_blood