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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 4. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book I:—eastern Tennessee. (search)
nd in the great city a thousand soldiers to oppose it. The organized militia has not yet returned from Pennsylvania, where it was sent to reinforce Couch. Old General Wool, to whom had been given, as a sort of retirement, the command of the Federal forces in New York, has under his orders only two companies of regulars, occupyingut the greater part of the day elapses before he has had time to bring them into the city. Meanwhile, the Board of Aldermen assembles, but without a quorum; General Wool issues useless orders, and appoints lieutenants who have no more soldiers than he; the policemen, efficient, but in too small a number, group themselves so as e military there were about ten killed and eighty wounded. The dead among the rioters and the victims of the riot exceeded four hundred and fifty. In place of General Wool, Mr. Lincoln substituted General Dix, a very energetic politician who had already attracted attention in connection with the government of the city of Baltimo