Very rare text with no copies on the market at any price; includes extensive information on the draft riots during which freed Africans were targeted and white New Yorkers burned an orphanage for black children to the ground, killing nearly every child inside.
Fry, James B. Retired Assistant Adjutant-General, Colonel Brevet Major-General U.S. Army. New York and the Conscription of 1863. A Chapter in the History of the Civil War. New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1885. 85pp.
Stiff wraps imitating pebbled morocco, ex library, deaccessioned from the Chicago Historical Society. Tender throughout with blank ffep loose. Complete and clean.
