Riots in New York 1868 Draw Fire Over Draft and Burned City
A five day outbreak in July 1868 in the Twenty-second ward and surrounding areas erupted over the draft, destroying the Colored Orphan Asylum and Tribune office. Rioters looted shops, attacked Black residents, and clashed with police and militia as the mob spread from Fifth Avenue to Broadway. Col J T O'Brien of the Eleventh New Jersey state troopers was killed amid the chaos. The violence ended with federal and state forces restoring order. estimates cite at least 200 dead and millions in property damage.
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Twenty-second Wards
New York City
Ok Gostachna Tn
Broadway
Fulton Street
Fifty-fifth
Daily Papers
Manshal
Potomac
Middle Tennessee
Hooker
Army of the Potomac
Pennsylvania
Gettysburg
Meade
Longstreet
Lee
Richmond
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New York
Vicksburg
Rosecrans
Tullahoma
United States
New England
Seymour
Charles E. Jenkins
Third Atvenue
Charles H. Carpenter
New New York
Vanderpoel
John A. Kennedy
Park Barracks
Invalid Corps
Lexington Avenue
Forty-seventh Street
Bull's Head
First Avenue
Mr. Andrews
Virginia
Tribu 19
Colored Orphan Asylum
Fifth Avenue
Forty-sixth Street
Une
Ty-Ninth Street
Tribune
Horace Greeley
Paulding
Navy Yard
Mint
Ee Y. Sas
John EB
Sandford
Governor's Island
J. T. O'Brien
Newark
Bouss
Father Clowrey
Brooklyn Barracks
Chancellorsville
Sixteenth Ward
Harlem
Opdyke
Twenty-ninth Street
Miller
Rivington Street
P Lvania
John A. Anan
Esday
Lincoln
H. Beaplum
Battle of Helena and Prentiss in Arkansas 1863
The account chronicles Gen. Benjamin M. Prentiss and Union forces at Helena Arkansas during July 1863. Confederate Gen. E Kirby Smith and Maj. Gen. Marmaduke lead Missouri and Arkansas troops in a failed effort to capture Helena, while Holmes withdraws after heavy fighting and shelling by gunboats under Admiral Porter.
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Ark
E. Kirby Smith
Trans- Mississippi
T. H. Holmes
District of Arkansas
Holmes
Little Rock
Kirby Smith
Shreve
Helena
Smith
Benjamin M. Prentiss
Illinois
Prentiss
Thirteenth Army Corps
Salomon
Fort Curtis
Clarendon
Price
Marmaduke
Walker
Fagan
Battery C
Garison
Conf
Cav
Powel
Porter
Attac
Admiral Iter
Ett
Prichett
Pricheners
Port Hudson
Ississippi
Goa River
New Orleans
Cairo
Fort Wagner and Charleston Harbor Skirmishes
A descriptive account of Charleston Harbor defenses and the July 11 and July 18 1863 assaults on Fort Wagner led by Gen. Q A Gillmore with Admiral Dahlgren. It details fortifications, gun counts, siege operations, and the heavy bombardment that silenced Wagner’s guns as Union forces pressed the siege to capture Fort Wagner and nearby fortifications.
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Charleston
New York
South Carolina
John G. Foster
Fort Sumter
Morris Island
Fort Wagner
Q. A. Gillmore
Battery Gregg
Cummings’ Point
Gillmore
Gilmore
John A. Dahlgren
Sullivan's Island
Dahlgren
Montauk
Rhind
Wagner
Nees
Eden
Carynd Goster
The Fifty Fourth Massachusetts at Fort Wagner
An account of the May 1863 assault on Fort Wagner led by Gen T. Shaw and Col. Shaw. The Fifty fourth Massachusetts Colored Regiment, under Strong and Putnam, faced brutal hand to hand fighting, with heavy casualties and the death of Col. Shaw, as the Union forces failed to hold the fort.
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Zevo
George
Strong
New York
Col
Putnam
New Shire
Connecticut
John A. Andrew
Massachusetts
Andrew
Massachusetts Galanteers
Robert G. Shaw
Andre
Shaw
Francis
Staten Island
N. Y
Robert
Frederick Douglass
Boston
Fort Wagner
Fifty-fourth
Col. Shaw
Wagner
Adesend
Col. Putnam
Orty-Eighth
Capt. J
Ned
Stevenson
Forter
Poenam
Chatfield
Fort Wop
Paa
Charleston
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Mnegroee
Col O Brien
O’brien
B. M. Prentiss
Charleston Harbor
James Islands
Arenes
Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Colored Regiment
Robert G. Whaw
T. Ae
Beauregard