More & worse Draft Riots outside NY in July 1863

In addition to the NY Draft Riots after the Gettysburg campaign, other northern cities also experienced similar violent disturbances by Irish immigrants over the draft, the war, & blacks. There were similar disturbances in other places like Buffalo & Cincinnatti among others- now, WI these draft riots had been just as bad as the disturbances which wrecked NY in July 1863 ? how much more would the Union's war effort have been hampered by such widespread anti-war discontent coupled with the need to transfer veteran regts back from the front to suppress the rioters ? Could the Copperheads have really taken advantage of this violent war weariness to oust Lincoln ?
 
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