New York Draft Riots of 1863

[CaryC]

[Captain Huk]

[Mark Armstrong]

There was a rather nice fictional story, "Major McCrary's Vision," by Ralph Milne Farley (Roger Sherman Hoar) that was published in the February 1939 edition of Strange Stories. The magazine can be downloaded for free at: https://archive.org/details/StrangeStoriesV01N01193902

The story, which seems to have been inspired by George Washington's Vision, features a man being given a preview of things to come, and being required to make a choice.

The magazine also has what seems to be a reprint of a clipping of a real-life event reported in a New York newspaper of that day--July 13, 1863. If accurate, it was quite a wild, deadly event.

[Lenno]

[CaryC]

There was a rather nice fictional story, "Major McCrary's Vision," by Ralph Milne Farley (Roger Sherman Hoar) that was published in the February 1939 edition of Strange Stories. The magazine can be downloaded for free at: https://archive.org/details/StrangeStoriesV01N01193902

The story, which seems to have been inspired by George Washington's Vision, features a man being given a preview of things to come, and being required to make a choice.

The magazine also has what seems to be a reprint of a clipping of a real-life event reported in a New York newspaper of that day--July 13, 1863. If accurate, it was quite a wild, deadly event.

It was!

The citizens of New York, mostly white young men, rioted because Federal Law was passed to conscript (draft) them into the Union Army. Those young white New Yorkers (Yankees) didn't want to go to war to free slaves (which at the time were black). They lynched 15 black people (I think that included women) and hung them from trees in New York City.

They also burnt down the Black Orphanage in New York City. No mention in the vid is made of any children dying in the fire.

It was also mentioned at the beginning about the attitude of the white's in New York, that they didn't want to see slavery abolished, due to them thinking they would leave the South, and the Southern Plantation, and come to New York and take their factory jobs. Which is what happened for years, even up through the 1960's by blacks and white alike due to Reconstruction.

However, we never hear that side. Are only given the moral high ground the Federal Unionist enjoyed over the mean ol' slave holder, with a whip, in the South. Nothing is ever said about the laws passed in MS in the 1820's making it a crime in MS to mistreat a slave, of any color, and a slave owner was tried and convicted for murdering a slave.

Also nothing is ever said about slave owners hiring out their slaves, who bought houses, married, and even purchased slaves of their own. The owners hired them out. meaning the owner got part of their pay. One of the best river captains of the Civil War was just such a slave. You did note I said a River Captain with command over his own boat. Granted he did flee north but only because he didn't think he would have the cash in time to prevent his wife, a slave owned by another owner, from being mistreated. And he used the boat he commanded to do it.

All we hear about is how good the North was, and how bad the South is.