The Devil's Own Work
Subtitle: The Civil War Draft Riots and the Fight to Reconstruct America
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: January 9, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780802715081
Subjects: U.S. History - Civil War And Reconstruction (1860-1877); History; History - U.S.; History: American; United States - Civil War; United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic; History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies); Amerikaanse burgeroorlog; Draft Riot, New York, N.Y., 1863; Militaire dienstplicht; Americas (North Central South West Indies)
First sentence: Far more important than all military events, &amp; more disastrous, &amp; still more ominous of evil for the North than would be a signal defeat on a battlefield, is the occurrence of a wide-spread &amp; bloody riot in the city of New York, the Virginia secessionist Edmund Ruffin exulted in his diary on July 18, 1863.