(CIVIL WAR NEW YORK) Mrs Thomas Bryan Letter describing the

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(CIVIL WAR--NEW YORK.) Mrs. Thomas Bryan. Letter describing the New York Draft Riots. Autograph Letter Signed to her sister. 3 pages, 8 x 5 inches, on one folding sheet; folds, moderate foxing. [Great Neck, NY?] 5 August 1863

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This letter was written by a working-class woman in Great Neck, Long Island about 15 miles outside of Manhattan. "I mean to tell you something about the riot in New York. There never was so troublesome a time in the country. They killed before them police and all ho stood before them, burned houses and hunted the mare [mayor] and a great many others, and killed negers and hunted them. They had to hide in the heeps of manure."

With--6 other personal letters to the same sister, most from Mrs. Bryan, 1862-1863 and undated. Provenance: collection of Arthur G. "Gil" Barrett.