Total Fatalities and Property Damage

In all, the published death toll of the New York City draft riots was 119 people, though estimates of the actual number of people killed reached as high as 1,200. Damage to buildings, stores and other sites (including the burning of the Colored Orphans Asylum) ranged into the millions of dollars.

Trials

In trials after the riots, 67 of the indicted rioters were convicted, but few were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.

African-American Relocation

The draft riots would have a devastating impact on the city’s African-American community. While the 1860 census recorded 12,414 black New Yorkers, by 1865 the city’s black population had declined to 9,945 by 1865, the lowest number since 1820. Some 3,000 African-Americans were left homeless.

The Draft

President Lincoln’s administration halved New York’s draft quota and civic organizations raised money to hire substitutes for City residents who could not otherwise afford them.

SOURCE: “New York Draft Riots,” History.com, August 21, 2018 (https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/draft-riots)