"The rebel horde invades Pennsylvania in force"
Battle lines are drawn: race, class & religion
Horace Greeley and the birth of the Republican Party
Fernando Wood, the "Southern" mayor of New York
"Slavery must die that the nation might live"
Emancipation and its enemies
"A highwayman's call on every American citizen for '$300 or your life'"
"Down with rich men!" : New York City draft riots begin
"Chased, stones, and beaten" : "A crusade against Negroes"
"Government in the hands of the white race alone"
"The police cannot much longer sustain the contest"
Doom or deliverance: Wednesday, July 15
"Helish passions culminating in riots, arson, and murder"
The final days: Thursday and Friday
A plot to "make the Northern States a battle field"
Aftermath: Sitting on two volcanoes
"Our bleeding, bankrupt, almost dying country"
"Villainous threats of laying northern cities in ashes"
War's end: slavery is dead, and the "Demon of Caste" lives on
"Condemnation and reversal of Negro suffrage"
Strange Bedfellows: Greeley and the Liberal Republicans
A Final devil's bargain: the end of Reconstruction
Walking tour of Civil War New York.
