The New York Draft Riots (July 13 to July 16, 1863; known at the time as Draft Week[2]), were violent disturbances in New York City that were the culmination of discontent with new laws passed by Congress to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War.
The riots were the largest civil insurrection in American history apart from the Civil War itself.[3] President Abraham Lincoln sent several regiments of militia and volunteer troops to control the city. Although not the majority, many of those arrested had Irish names, according to the lists compiled by Adrian Cook in his "Armies of the Streets
The New York Draft Riots (July 13 to July 16, 1863)... That was your rebellion that Lincoln was putting down? Three days in July 1863? A fraction of a percent of the total of his first term? That's all you got?
The riots were the largest civil insurrection in American history apart from the Civil War itself.
I bit of hyperbole, don't you think? In terms of body count, maybe. In terms of length and amount of damage done, the riots in the 20th century were much worse.