Two federal enrolling officers for the draft, Dr. A.H. Carter and Frederick Bailey, accompanied by federal marshals, went to arrest two men in the Third Ward of Chicago for refusing to cooperate with the enrollment. When the two were taken into custody near the Rock Island machine shops close to Fourth Avenue and Liberty Streets, a mob reportedly numbering in the hundreds, attacked the officers with bricks and stones, injuring several of them, fracturing Carter's skull, and freeing the prisoners. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
"Riot in the Third Ward: Enrolling Officers Stoned and Injured," Chicago Tribune, June 26, 1863, p. 4.