July 13th, 1863, New York City ... who have been manipulated by powerful players. 🏢🔥 As anti-draft sentiments boil over into racial violence, the dire consequences of division and prejudice ...
This extended episode then chronicles the fall of Vicksburg, the New York draft riots, the first use of black troops, and the western battles at Chickamauga, Georgia, and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
It will be remembered that Gov. SEYMOUR'S main pretext in justification of his opposition to the draft last Summer, at the period of the riots, was an alleged system of fraud in the enrollment ...