Bloody Monday, Louisville, Ky., 1855

found: Work cat.: McDaniel, G. Aindreas : the messenger : Louisville, Kentucky, 1855:jkt. (Aindreas ... a 13 year-old Irish-Catholic boy living in gaudy and grubby Louisville, Ky. In 1855 ... Louisville is on the verge of ... anarchy as election day approaches and the Know-Nothing Party arms mobs of drunken thugs to intimidate voters)

found: Cathedral Heritage Foundation website, May 1, 2001:A concise history of Louisville from "Spirited City : essays in Louisville history" by C.F. Crews (The anti-immigrant "Bloody Monday" riot of August 6, 1855, took over twenty lives)

found: The Insiders' guide to Louisville : Louisville media online May 1, 2001:The Courier-Journal : a glorious past, an uncertain future (The Louisville Journal was the most widely circulated paper in the West from 1830 through the Civil War, mainly due ... [to] George D. Prentice (... [whose] ... editorials played [a role] in the "Bloody Monday" riot))

found: Cath. encyc. online, May 1, 2001:Knownothingness (The following year (1855), at Louisville, Ky. ... elections were attended with such rioting and bloodshed, the result of Knownothing agitation, that the day (5 [sic] Aug.) acquired the name of "Bloody Monday".)