Unemployment and unrest were considered so high in New York City following the financial panic that the government dispatched soldiers and marines under General Winfield Scott to protect the U.S. Customs House there. The facility was home to twenty million dollars in reserves. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Thomas G. Mitchell, Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2007), 127.
Record Data
Date Certainty
Exact
Type
Battles/Soldiers
