The Draft Riots End in a Sea of Blood - The Reconstruction Era

The Draft Riots End in a Sea of Blood - The Reconstruction Era

by Patrick Young, Esq. – Blogger Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Tuesday July 14, 1863 was the second day of the Draft Riots. Early that morning, Albra Lyons, the African American owner of the Seaman’s Home for African Americans heard a policeman at his door. The Irish cop knew Lyons and said he came by because he was afraid the mob might have targeted this New York stop on the Underground Railroad. Lyons told him that he had already…