As the Civil War dragged on more and more men decided to either dodge the draft or desert the Union Army such was the case of Thomas Adams of Knox Clearfield county in the center of Pa.
https://www.visitclearfieldcounty.org/parks_cabins_bloody_knox
Who had a cabin in Knox Twp.
He became Martyr of shorts killed by union troops when they got wind that he and large group of resisters where at his cabin .having a party
The resisters where causing problems all over the county including looting and the union army had enough when 500 men where drafted in Clearfield and only 150 showed.
When a sheriff was shot by resisters working as Loggers enough was enough
on December 13 1864 Union troops went in search of the resisters and it would be known as the Bloody Knox incident and would see Thomas Adams and Union Solider Edgar L Reed laying dead and 18 arrested and eventually 150 captured and incarcerated .
https://www.visitclearfieldcounty.org/parks_cabins_bloody_knox
Now Knox was not the only incident as their where riots in city's all over the northeast but Bloody Knox
saw some of the worst of it .
