JULY 12, 1863:
The
New York Draft Riots (Day Two):
The names of draftees drawn the previous day
are published in the New York newspapers. Angry workingmen gather in saloons, on
streetcorners, and in their kitchens to discuss their response to the Draft,
which is scheduled to resume on Monday, July 13. As the New York Herald later observed, 'Those
who heard the scattered groups of laborers and mechanics who congregated in
different quarters on Saturday evening…might have reasonably argued that a
tumult was at hand.” Overnight, groups of men begin to assemble into ever
larger crowds as information, true and false, is passed around.
On this same day, the U.S. Balloon Corps is deactivated.
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