The New York Draft Riots, Second Avenue, New York City, 13-16 July 1863, (1872). Artist: Unknown

The New York Draft Riots, Second Avenue, New York City, 13-16 July 1863, (1872). Artist: Unknown

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The New York Draft Riots, Second Avenue, New York City, 13-16 July 1863, (1872). The riots began as protests against President Abraham Lincoln's Enrollment Act of Conscription drafting men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. Engraving from A Child's History of the United States by John Gilmary Shea, published by Hess and McDavitt, (New York, 1872).

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