spray-paint and acrylics on canvas

78.7 x 57.1 inches

Wealthy New Yorkers, often voters and supporters of the Republican Party, demanded conscription and the fight for the Union. 

After all, they themselves did not have to risk their lives after all, as the $300 Exemption Cause provided a welcome escape for them. 

When the New York Police Department still considered a coming uprising a remote possibility, the group of disaffected New Yorkers ready to fight grew by the minute starting at five in the morning.

Already, revolters were gaining access to factories, animating and forcing workers to join them, and eventually looting entire arsenals of weapons. 

The son of the president of Columbia College reported that a crowd of protesting New Yorkers filling 47th Street from curb to curb was so enormous that it took 25 minutes to pass a given point. Those determined to do almost anything, who sounded their "Down with the Rich“, were faced by only 2,000 policemen and a regiment of the Invalid Corps.