🏢🔥 As anti-draft sentiments boil over into racial violence, the dire consequences of division and prejudice unfold in heart-wrenching detail. - When divisions are sown, everyone loses.

Most of the history on impact of the Civil War draft focuses on the draft riots in New York in the summer of 1863. In what historian Lawrence Lader called “New York’s bloodiest week,” the ...

This episode opens with a dramatic account of the turning point of war: the Battle of Gettysburg ... the New York draft riots, the first use of black troops, and the western battles at Chickamauga ...