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Girl Spy Dispatch Sparks New York City Mob Uprising
A telegraph warns of Confederate agents Gailiart and Cleburne inciting a riot in New York. Police scramble to protect the navy yard and ironclad while mobs loot and threaten Black residents. Officers ask for federal support as brigades rush to the scene and a brutal confrontation unfolds near Broadway and the shipyards.
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Arteen
Melru-Guidyyne Mayer
Marion Davies
Alleklydick
Colonal Sharpe
Andrews
Doin
Misa Guilter
Miss Wert
Gailiach
Clehwne
Confederaty Secret Service
New York
Navy Yard
Acton
Governor's Island
Cleburne
Pas Ihce
Seton
Mat
Twenty-first
Fourteenth Street
Reynolds
United States Infantry
Fifth Avenue
Anton
Sandford
Anton Square
Greenwich Alvech
Chen
Hecord Avenue
Twenty-seventh Street
Seventh Avenue
Nort River
Caplain Warlow
Colnred Poppin
Walling
Hedden
Fifth Ave
Ringkels
Quins
Red Bird Omnibus
Durderberg
Secret Service
Brown
Joh Gailard
Nts
Grace Shel
Heey
Firirlg
Broadway
Omibus
Platola
Ninth Avenue
Kaw
Twentieth Street
Sixth Avenue
Sifteenth Precinet Pullee
Canta Hedden Spd Tasreclor Dilks
Twenty-second Street
Second Avenue
Statenhouse
Insnentor Dirks
Asten
Mulberry Street
Captain Heddenlsu
Winona
Heder
Dilkes
Yorma
Ant
Ine Spector Dilks
New York Guard
Menta
Colonel Nevers
Webb
Caytuht Wedden
Inspector Gilks
Guilliart
Hedien
Nat
Wright
TNO
Twonkield
Siyelyars
Drew
Tyne
Alory