Monday, July 13, 1863 Continued... Attacks on colored people: Mobs assaulted blacks wherever they could be found — in tenement districts, on the streets, in restaurants and boardinghouses. The Colored Sailors Home on Dover Street was attacked. Police battled rioters at Roosevelt and Batavia streets (near where the Brooklyn Bridge approaches are today) around a mob bonfire. Blacks hid in police stations or escaped Manhattan by ferry.
Tuesday, July 14, 1863 The West Side riots: All through the day, small groups of rioters attacked blacks living and working in the West 20s and 30s. Many black people took refuge in the Church of the Transfiguration on 29th St. By late afternoon, the mob had constructed barricades along 9th Ave. from 36th to 42nd streets. Multiple assaults by troops dislodged the obstructions by midnight. The battle of the Union Steam Works: All day, control of the building at 2nd Ave. and 22nd St., with its thousands of guns, swung between rioters and police. The building was set afire that night.
