The Great Riots of New York, 1712 to 1873 by Joel Tyler Headley
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9. ATTACK ON THE TRIBUNE OFFICE
10. FIGHT BETWEEN RIOTERS AND MILITIA 11. HANGING AND BURNING A NEGRO IN CLARKSON STREET 12. THE DEAD SERGEANT IN TWENTY-SECOND STREET 13. DRAGGING COLONEL O'BRIEN'S BODY IN THE STREET 14. BURNING SECOND AVENUE ARMORY 15. RECEIVING DEAD BODIES AT THE MORGUE PREFACE. The materials for the descriptions of the Negro and Doctors' Riots were gathered from the Archives of the Historical Society; those of the immediately succeeding ones, from the press of the times. For the scenes and incidents that occurred on the stage and behind the curtain in the Astor-place Opera Riot, I am indebted to a pamphlet entitled "_Behind the Scenes_." The materials for the history of the Draft Riots were obtained in part from the Daily Press, and in part from the City and Military Authorities, especially Commissioner Acton, Seth Hawley, General Brown, and Colonel Frothingham, who succeeded in putting them down. Mr. David Barnes, who published, some ten years ago, a pamphlet entitled |
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