Introductory material
Reading edition
CHAPTER XX.
Continued Tranquillity.—Strange Assortment of Plunder gathered in the
Cellars and Shanties of the Rioters.—Search for it exasperates
the Irish.—Noble Conduct of the Sanitary Police.—Sergeant
Copeland.—Prisoners tried.—Damages claimed from the City.—Number
of Police killed.—Twelve hundred Rioters killed.—The Riot Relief
Fund.—List of Colored People killed.—Generals Wool and Sandford's
Reports.—Their Truthfulness denied.—General Brown vindicated.
CHAPTER XXI.
ORANGE RIOTS OF 1870 AND 1871.
Religious Toleration.—Irish Feuds.—Battle of Boyne
Water.—Orangemen.—Origin and Object of the Society.—A Picnic at Elm
Park.—Attacked by the Ribbonmen.—The Fight. After Scenes.—Riot
of 1871.—Conspiracy of the Irish Catholics to prevent a Parade of
Orangemen.—Forbidden by the City Authorities.—Indignation of
the People.—Meeting in the Produce Exchange.—Governor Hoffman's
Proclamation.—Morning of the 12th.—The Orangemen at Lamartine
Hall.—Attack on the Armories.—The Harpers threatened.—Exciting
Scenes around Lamartine Hall and at Police Head-quarters.—Hibernia
Hall cleared.—Attack on an Armory.—Formation of the Procession.—Its
March.—Attacked.—Firing of the Military without Orders.—Terrific
Scene.—The Hospitals and Morgue.—Night Scenes.—Number of killed and
wounded.—The Lesson.