The First, or "old" market was large building at the northwest
corner of Main and 17th Streets. It extended all the way to Franklin
Street. The Second Market was on the northeast corner of Marshall
and 6th Streets. Police stations were located in each market house.
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Richmond Dispatch |
3/17/1862; Parker’s Battery to assemble at the old market, and march to Camp
of Instruction (Camp Lee) |
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Richmond Dispatch |
4/30/1862; Co. F, Tredegar Battn to meet at Old Market Hall |
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Richmond Dispatch |
5/9/1862; newspaper suggests Old Market Hall as hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/3/1862; the
market is full of goods, but no diminution of prices |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/3/1862; wounded
temporarily at Old Market Hall & store of Angus & Byerly. Need attention &
transfer to real hospitals |
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Richmond
Enquirer |
7/3/1862; wounded Confederates have temporarily
been placed in the store of Angus & Byerly at the Old Market |
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Richmond
Dispatch |
7/4/1862; wounded soldiers at the
Old Market Hall and at the store of Angus and Byerly need supplies |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/4/1862; Dr.
Jos. E. Clagett & E. L. Wager running the Market Hall Hospital |
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Richmond Dispatch |
7/15/1862; RDRR
wants to extend up Virginia Street. J. Johns, Medical Purveyor, protests.
Also, Mr. Crutchfield introduces a bill about “weighing of long forage in
the Second Market.” |
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Richmond Dispatch |
8/13/1862;
Officer strikes sergeant of the 10th Va Cav. with a pistol near the Old
Market. Cary St., between 17th and 18th known as “Dublin” area |
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Richmond Dispatch |
8/16/1862; Old
Market House recently white-washed |
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Richmond Dispatch |
10/7/1862;
Mayor’s Court: James Williams, drunk soldier, sent to Castle Thunder; Hoenniger
charges men with burglary, room #44 Spotswood Hotel; slave charged with
stealing money from guest at the Ballard House (discharged); free negro
without papers ordered whipped for smoking a cigar in the street; another
free negro threatens boy in Second Market & used “indecent language” –
ordered to be whipped. |
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Richmond Dispatch |
11/22/1862;
Michael Rourke, 1st TX, at Winder Hospital, arrested for stealing
eggs from First Market |
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Richmond Dispatch |
12/20/1862;
enrolling officer’s final day at Old Market Hall |
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Richmond
Sentinel |
3/26/1863; benefit to be held tonight at the
Market Hall for the victims of the Laboratory explosion |
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Richmond
Whig |
2/29/1864; bell at the first market
has cracked, which had given the fire alarm. Advocates the "bell house" at
Capitol Square do the job in the meantime |
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National
Tribune |
8/3/1899; "A Union Man in Richmond"
part three of serial account. Describes the scene in Richmond immediately
following secession. States that Gov. Letcher was often drunk; the vote to
ratify secession was held in the Old Market building (with serious voter
intimidation going on); the Hampden Sydney Battalion passing through
Richmond. |
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National
Tribune |
9/21/1899; “A Union Man in Richmond” part seven of
serialized account. Describes the tough economic conditions in Richmond in
1863 (with a nice description of the scene at the Old Market), the small-pox
epidemic in Richmond (blames Longstreet’s men for bringing it to the city),
an unreported assassination attempt on President Davis, and garroters in
Richmond. |
