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A riot against the Civil War draft quickly turned into something much darker, and soldiers were recalled from the battlefield to put it down.
Sources:
https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/317749.html&title=The+New+York+City+Draft+Riots+of+1863&desc
Beard, Rick. City Under Siege: The New York Draft Riots
https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/draft-riots
https://history.nycourts.gov/case/court-cases-related-to-the-new-york-city-draft-riots-1863/
Dupree, A. Hunter and Leslie H. Fishel, Jr. "An Eyewitness Account of the New York Draft Riots, July, 1863"
Anbinder, Tyler. "Which Poor Man’s Fight?: Immigrants and the Federal Conscription of 1863."
