ON THIS DAY
from The New York Times
n July 13, 1863, anti-draft violence erupted in New York City, resulting in four days of bloodshed, arson, looting, and mayhem... the Peace wing of the Democratic Party...had been distributing pamphlets and organizing public rallies that denounced the war, emancipation, blacks, Lincoln, and Republicans...hundreds of the city's white workingmen marched in protest...A company of volunteer firemen, angry over losing their traditional exemption from conscription, demolished and burned the draft office...The anti-draft zealots then went on an arson spree targeting homes of...well-known Republicans, looting as they went.
At Newspaper Row , across from City Hall , Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, one of which he manned. The mob instead attacked ... abolitionist Horace Greeley's New York Tribune
