Gilded Age · event 9 of 14

13 July 1863

The Draft Riots. Four days of the worst civil disorder in American history. A mob attacks the conscription office and then turns on the city’s Black population, burning the Colored Orphan Asylum and killing at least 119 people. Troops are brought from Gettysburg to end it.

The Gilded Age era

  1. 30 April 1789
  2. 1799
  3. 1811
  4. 26 October 1825
  5. 16 December 1835
  6. 14 October 1842
  7. 1845
  8. 1857
  9. 13 July 1863
  10. 24 May 1883
  11. 28 October 1886
  12. 12 March 1888
  13. 1 January 1892
  14. 1 January 1898

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