eleven o'clock at night
The sanguine hopes for a more quiet day were not fulfilled , but the severest fighting was done by the military , and cavalry now began to take part in the conflict . On the west side , Seventh Avenue was swept again and again with grape and canister before the mob gave way . On the east side there were several battles , and in one of them , fought just before night , the troops were compelled to retreat , leaving some of their dead and wounded in the streets . General Brown sent Captain Putnam with one hundred and fifty regulars to the scene of disaster and continued violence , and a sanguinary conflict ensued between ten and eleven o'clock at night . Putnam swept the dimly lighted streets with his cannon , and when the rioters fled into the houses he opened such a terrible fire upon them as to subdue all resistance . The mob was at last learning that the authorities would neither yield nor scruple to make use of any means in the conflict . In the great centres down town , things were comparatively quiet .