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The Daily Dispatch: July 18, 1863., [Electronic resource], article 14 (search)
tion of violence was made immediately thereafter. A volley of stones crashed through the open doors and large windows of the enrolling office, (which had been constructed for a store on the first floor of the building.) One or two persons inside the office were struck by stones, and other persons — among whom were the Provost Marshal, who had maintained his position on the table where the wheel stood, and the Commissioner, Surgeon, and other officers of the draft including Deputy Provost Marshal Vanderpokel, and the reporters for the news papers — at once made their escape from the room to other parts of the building and to the rear. The Provost Marshal, who would probably have been murdered if caught, was assisted over the wall of the back yard. Destruction of the building. When the room had been cleared the rioters approached with their clubs and with their hands full of stones and bricks began to destroy the windows which had escaped the previous volley. When howeve