The New York draft riots
1863 · Event
Days after Gettysburg, the first federal draft lottery ignites four days of rioting in New York — the mob turning from draft offices to lynching Black New Yorkers and burning the Colored Orphan Asylum. Troops from Gettysburg's battlefield put it down; over a hundred die.
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