On Wednesday July 15, rioters continued to attack African Americans who had not fled the city. A group of white men pulled Abraham Franklin, a disabled African-American coachman, and his sister Henrietta out of their boarding room on Manhattan's West Side. Henrietta was beaten as Abraham was hanged. After his body was cut down by passing soldiers, the crowd hanged him again to loud cheers of "Jeff Davis!" Patrick Butler, a 16- year old Irish butcher, later cut Franklin down again and dragged his body through the streets.
Those riots, lootings and murders were as much about the Draft as the 1968 riots were about M.L. King's death. Like King, the Draft was simply a convenient excuse for lawless mob action.
"To give you a taste of your Draft Riot heroes"
They're no heros of mine... they're firmly in your camp. Deal with it.
Give them time. Pretty soon they'll trot out "Gangs of New York" as a reference.