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The Conscription Act of 1863
made all white men between the ages of twenty and forty-five years
eligible for the draft by the Union Army. Blacks were not drafted or
forced to fight and white men with money could legally hire
a substitute. Lower-class whites (many of whom were Irish) resented the
draft. This print shows the 1863 riot in New York City by a mob of
lower-class whites (including many Irish). <
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