Posted on 07/17/2023 6:19:19 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Yesterday the City wore a more quiet and natural aspect than on any day since Sunday, and it was apparent that the reign of the mob was drawing to a close. The return home of several regiments of our State Militia, whose services were immediately tendered to the authorities, gladdened the hearts of our citizens and struck terror to those of the mob.
The riotous demonstrations were confined to a comparatively small neighborhood of tenement houses on the east side of the town, and even in that locality they did not assume a formidable shape until late in the afternoon. The rioters then rallied, apparently for a last desperate struggle, and, thanks to the energetic action of the authorities, it was, to many of them, indeed the last. It was the opinion at headquarters, late last night, that unless the vagabonds receive speedy reinforcements from their friends on the other side of the Potomac, their game is up.
First-avenue, throughout its entire length, was comparatively quiet during the morning. There were frequent knots of idle men engaged in earnest discussion and angry denunciation of the conduct of the military, but the excitement seemed to expend itself in talk. The men looked worn and exhausted, and loud as they talked of vengeance, did not appear very desirous of getting in the way of any more bullets and grape. At the corner of Nineteenth-street, the scene of the encounter of the previous evening, everything was tranquil. The shops of all Kinds in the vicinity were closed, with the exception of one corner grogshop, which was doing a pretty steady business. The evidences of the late fight were numerous. The street was strewn with broken brickbats, with stones and other missiles, and the liquor-store on the southeast
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Link to previous New York Times thread
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4168265/posts
The Riot Subsiding: A Last Desperate Struggle – 2-5
The Retreat of Lee: His Army Moving Toward Culpepper – 5-6
The Army of Gen. Rosecrans: What it Has Accomplished During the Recent Campaign – 6
Vicksburgh – 6
The Fall of Port Hudson: A Bearer of Dispatches from General Banks at Cairo – 7
Morgan’s Great Raid – 7
The Surrender of Vicksburgh; Full Details from Our Own Correspondent – 7-10
News from Washington – 10
Editorial: Is the Riot Ended? – 10
Editorial: Enforcement of the Draft – 10-11
Editorial: The Spirit of the Mob and its Promoters – 11
Editorial: The Unfortunate Blacks-An Appeal – 11-12
Editorial: Gen. Banks – 12
Editorial: The Mississippi Open-Change of Base for Gen. Banks – 12
A Stupid Hoax – 12
Andrews Arrested – 12
Garroting – 12
Grant’s Prisoners – 12
Nice to read history as it happened then, not the history that’s reported about that today.
In 2020, 157 years later, the deep state subsidized the riots.
Thx 4 the post. That was some serious mayhem that went down. What I read as 2 paragraphs in a US history book came alive with detail in the Times pages.
“That was some serious mayhem that went down.”
For sure. If you haven’t been following my posts on the Harper’s Weekly thread lately, I recommend them for George Templeton Strong’s accounts of the riots. He as entries every day this week. On the 15th he tells of the men from his club being “badly repulsed in an attack on the mob.” So citizens took matter into their own hands on occasion if the police were unavailable. Today the editors of his diary tell of bodies of citizens obtaining arms from the authorities and taking a hand in restoring order. I can’t imagine that happening today.
Here are the links to the entries I quoted from.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4167030/posts#40
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4167030/posts?q=1&;page=51#54
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