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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)
, crowds were collected; they rapidly increased in size, and soon one of them broke into one of the enrollingoffices. The Federal officers, rudely interrupted in their duties, escaped with difficulty. The rioters demolished everything; then, throwing turpentine on the floor, set fire to the building. The firemen, who had come in haste to extinguish it, were violently driven away. The rising had commenced by conflagration; it was going to continue by murder. The chief of police, Mr. John A. Kennedy, arriving on the ground, is set upon and left for dead. In an instant the rumor is spread throughout the city that the draft has been stopped by force. The other enrolling-offices are prudently closed, and, this news imparting boldness to the most timid minds, an immense crowd is added to the first rioters. This crowd is divided into groups which march in the different thoroughfares, carrying everywhere mischief and terror. The mob is not armed; but no matter, since neither the ci