The Draft fiots of 1963 / Henry Noble MacCracken.
Talk on the anti-draft riots in New York City during the Civil War.|THE DRAFT RIOT OF 1863 / Henry Noble MacCracken. - SERIES: Crises in New York history| no. 3 - Talk on the anti-draft riots in New York City during the Civil War. The problems of manpower faced by the Union army forced the Lincoln administration to initiate the nations first draft. The system, however, was riddled with loopholes for the wealthy. The result was an inequitable system which led to great disaffection. - RECORDED: 4 Jan. 1961. BROADCAST: WBAI, 27 May 1962.