Friday, July 13, 2007
This Day in American History
On this day in 1863, in several cities in the North, but it was worst in New York, the Yankees stopped basking in the glow of the victory at Gettysburg and rioted in protest of the war in general and the draft in particular. The focus of the mobs' wrath was the black population of the various cities, because it was rightly felt that slavery was the cause of the Civil War. In New York hundreds were killed or injured and millions of dollars worth of damage done to buildings.
Imagine how bad it would have been if the North had lost Gettysburg.
Labels: American Civil War
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:07 AM 
