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...
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Opposition to the American Civil War (redirect from Draft riots)
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...
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Conscription in the United States (redirect from Revival of the draft)
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...
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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...
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Union (American Civil War) (section Draft riots)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Horace Greeley (section Draft riots and peace efforts)
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...
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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...
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