ABC book for Civil War
D

Draft Riot

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D is for Draft Riot. It was in new York in 1863. underprivileged and anti black Irish Americans were mad and made a mob. The place was on fire and full of drunken men. Riots had started in other places at about the same time. The rioters outnumbered the people that Abraham sent. At the end Abraham paid $1.5 million to get New York fixed up.

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