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Show Draft Riots. The only notorious "draft riots" of the Civil war took place July 13 14 15 and 16, 18G3, in New York city' It is estimated that more than a thousand men were killed, and property worth $1,500,000 was destroyed in the four days. The draft was resumed however, how-ever, on August 19, and was completed In ten days without resistance There were slight disturbances in Boston on the night of. July 15, in Portsmouth N. H., and in Holmes county, Ohio In Philadelphia and Chicago prominent Unionists asked the president to post pone the draft, and it was avoid td in Illinois until the next year |