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New York Draft Riots

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New York Draft Riots
anticonscription feelings resulted in anarchy and bloodshed (1863). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 429]
See : Riot


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The force of Fitzgibbon's statement in part lies in Kennedy's placing the conversation in August, 1864 when the memory of Irish-Americans' actions in the New York draft riots would still have been fresh.
'Quinn's Book:' reconstructing Irish-American history by Turner, Tramble T. / MELUS
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