Your account of Draft Riots isn’t bad, but your timeline is a bit off.
The riots started 150 years ago today. (!)
The preliminary Emancipation Proclamation was issued in summer of 1862 and the final version January 1, 1863. So ending slavery had been an explicit goal of the war for a year when the riots started.
While the rioters targetted blacks, it was not really a race riot, as such. The mostly Irish rioters also targetted Protestants, cops, soldiers and anybody dressed better than they were.
Where blacks drafted by the Union during the CW?
Wow, that’s amazing it was this very day! I really did think they were a lot earlier, thanks for claifying.