Market House, Fayetteville, NC
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showbizkid
N 35° 03.166 W 078° 52.684
17S E 693520 N 3880953
This stately landmark and town centerpiece, dating from 1832, was the scene of a brief cavalry action as Union forces entered Fayetteville. The posted coordinates will take you to the NC Civil War Trails marker on Market Square.
Waymark Code: WME9H
Location: North Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 06/05/2006
Views: 161
On Saturday morning, March 11, 1865, a brief skirmish took place at the Market House as Confederate forces evacuated Fayetteville while Union General William T. Sherman's army entered the town. A rear guard detachment under General Wade Hampton surprised a Union cavalry patrol after one of the Federals came around the corner from Russell Street and then fired at Hampton on the south side of the Market House. In the ensuing engagement, several Union cavalrymen were killed or captured. Within a few hours, Hampton's forces had departed burning the Clarendon Bridge behind them.
Later that day, to save the building from destruction, Mayor Archibald McLean and a majority of the seven Town commissioners went to Sherman's lines and negotiated the peaceful surrender of the town. During Sherman's occupation of Fayetteville, Federal soldiers flew a United States flag from the Market House cupola.
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