In 1861, Erin’s sons and daughters embraced the Union war effort; but by 1863 their disgust with the draft and emancipation caused them to riot in New York. New York attorney George Templeton Strong remembered the morning of July 13, 1863, as “deadly muggy” with “a muddy sky and lifeless air.” Through this heat he …
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