Briefly catalogued, the first day's work was the burning of the jirovost marshal's offices, the destruction of the lists (under the idea that if they were once destroyed the draft could not be enforced), tearing up railroad tracks, cutting of telegraph wires, mobbing of individual soldiers found on the streets, murder of some of them, resistance to the police accompanied by murder, burning of an orphan asylum for colored children, burning and sacking of many j)rivate houses, hanging of negroes wherever they were to be found by the mob, attack on the counting-room of the New York Tribune, rescue of the same by a charge of police under Captain Thome.

Second day: murder of Colonel O'Brien, of the Eleventh Regiment, when he was away from his troops, general control of the city by the mob, troops telegraphed for, fierce fighting by the police to maintain a semblance of ord^-r.

On this day Westchester County became involved in the disturbances. Crowds visited the enrolling offices of Morrisania and West Farms, tore up the en-

HISTORY OF WESTCHESTER COUNTY.

rolling lists, destroyed the telegraph offices at Williams' Bridge aud Melrose, ripped up some rails on the New Haven and Harlem roads, near the Bronx River, had pickets on both roads as far as Mount Vernon to signal when a general attempt to tear up tracks might be safe, but were quieted in Morri^ania and West Farms by appeals made by Supervisor Cauldwell and Mr. Pierre C. Talman. A telegraph operator on this day tried to put an instrument into a store at Hunt's Bridge, near Mount Vernon, but the proprietor was intimidated by a message from sympathizers with the mob, that, if the instrument was not removed, the store would be gutted. On this, the second day, there was a complete reign of terror, though no violence seems to have been committed in the county beyond the acts chronicled above.