Show draft riots tho the only notorious draft riots of the civil war took place july 13 14 15 and IG 1863 1963 in fit now york city it Is estimated estimate that moro more than a thousand men were killed and property properly worth 1 was destroyed in the tour four days the draft was waa resumed how over on august 19 and was ivas completed in ten days without resistance there were slight disturbances in doston boston on tho night of july 15 in n portsmouth N IL and luIl olmes county ohio in philadelphia and chicago prominent unionists asked tho the president to postpone the tho draft and it was avoided in illinois until the next year |