{⋆★⋆} LG Hampton, Wade

Wade Hampton III​

Born: March 28, 1818

Birthplace: William Rhett House, Charleston, South Carolina

Father: Wade Hampton II 1791 – 1858

(Buried: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, South Carolina)​

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Mother: Ann Fitzsimmons 1794 – 1833

(Buried: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, South Carolina)​

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Wives:

1st​ Wife: Margaret Buchanan Frances Preston 1818 - 1852

(Buried: Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbia, South Carolina)​

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Married: October 10, 1838 in Washington County, Virginia

2nd​ Wife: Mary Singleton McDuffie 1830 – 1874

(Buried: Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbia, South Carolina)​

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Married: January 27, 1858 in Albemarle, South, Carolina

Children:

Wade Hampton IV 1840 – 1879​

(Buried: Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbia, South Carolina)

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Thomas Preston Hampton 1843 – 1864​

(Buried: Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbia, South Carolina)​

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Sarah Buchanan Hampton Haskell 1845 – 1886​

(Buried: Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbia, South Carolina)​

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Harriet Hampton 1848 – 1853​

(Buried: Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbia, South Carolina)​

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George McDuffie Hampton 1859 – 1917​

(Buried: Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbia, South Carolina)​

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Mary Singleton "Daisy" Hampton Tucker 1861 – 1934​

(Buried: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Church, Columbia, S.C.)​

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Alfred Hampton 1861 – 1942​

(Buried: Gavilan Hills Memorial Park, Gilroy, California)​

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Catherine Fisher Hampton 1867 – 1867​

(Buried: Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbia, South Carolina)

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Education:

1836: Graduated from South Carolina College​

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Occupation:

Plantation Manager in South Carolina & Mississippi​

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Member of South Carolina State General Assembly​

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1858 – 1861: South Carolina State Senator​

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Civil War Career:

Served as a Private in South Carolina State Militia​

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Colonel in the South Carolina State Militia​

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1861 – 1862: Colonel of Hampton's South Carolina Legion​

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1861: Participated in the First Battle of Bull Run wounded

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1862 – 1863: Brigadier General in Confederate Army​

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1862: Served in the Peninsula Campaign & Battle of Seven Pines​

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1862: Severely Wounded in foot at Battle of Seven Pines​

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1862: Participated in the Seven Days Campaign​

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1862 – 1865: Commander in the Confederate Cavalry​

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1862: Participated in the Battle of Fredericksburg​

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1863: Wounded during the Battle of Brandy Station​

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1863: Participated in Battle of Gettysburg Wounded by Sabre​

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1863 – 1865: Major General of Confederate Cavalry​

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1864: Participated in the Overland Campaign​

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1864: Given Command of Confederate Cavalry​

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1864: Led the Confederate Cavalry at Battle of Trevilian Station​

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1864: Led the Confederate Cavalry during Siege of Petersburg​

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1864 – 1865: Returned to South Carolina to Recruit Soldiers​

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1865: Promoted to the rank of Lt. General of Confederate Cavalry​

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1865: Served with General Joseph Johnston's Army​

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1865: Surrendered at Bennett Place, Durham, North Carolina​

Occupation after War:

Chairman of South Carolina State Democratic Party Committee​

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1870: Helped in the Union Reform Campaign​

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Leading Opponent of Radical Reconstruction​

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1877 – 1879: Governor of South Carolina​

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1879 – 1891: United States Senator from South Carolina​

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1893 – 1897: United States Railroad Commissioner​

Died: April 11, 1902

Place of Death: Columbia, South Carolina

Age at time of Death: 84 years old

Cause of Death: Valvular Heart Disease

Burial Place: Trinity Episcopal Church, Columbia, South Carolina

The Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia
Printed on Saturday, April 12, 1902, on Page 1.​

 

[Pollaco]

I'd like to hear more about his "beefsteak raid",even without all that meat other hoof it must have been a real morale booster.

 

[willimd1]

This is a very big deal. I can't remember exactly where, but shortly thereafter, Hampton overran Philip Sheridan's camp. The latter barely escaped.

I would pay money to watch Old Phil Sheridan fleeing in his night clothes....

I believe this was Kilpatrick that escaped in his night clothes. Monroes's Crossroads 1865.Unless he did it twice which would be great!

 

[willimd1]

Are there any books on Wade Hampton? He would be interesting to read about.

Gentleman and Soldier by Edward G Longacre

 

[Nathan Stuart]

During the 1865 Carolinas Campaign, a group of competent and capable Confederate Generals were finally assembled to lead the remnants of the Army. They included, Johnston, Hardee, Stewart and S. D. Lee, as well as L-G Hampton commanding the Cavalry Corps. By then, however, their troops were largely of low quality and also vastly outnumbered.

 

[ErnieMac]

I'd like to hear more about his "beefsteak raid",even without all that meat other hoof it must have been a real morale booster.

The Beefsteak Raid

**** September 14, 1864: Hampton Sets Out to Rustle Some Cattle Note: Here is the best map I could find of Hampton’s Beefsteak Raid. There are

www.beyondthecrater.com

 

[USS ALASKA]

Louisiana State University
LSU Scholarly Repository
LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses
Graduate School
1988

Wade Hampton and the Rhetoric of Race: A Study of the Speaking of Wade Hampton on the Race Issue in South Carolina, 1865-1878.
Dewitt Grant Jones
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Scholarly Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Scholarly Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Copyright © 1989 by Jones, DeWitt Grant. All rights reserved.

ABSTRACT
This study examined the racial rhetoric of Wade Hampton with particular attention to claims that he was a moderate and sought to solve the racial problems of the period through rhetorical means. The study investigated: (1) the extent to which his speeches addressed the racial issue, (2) the consistency of his position, and (3) the nature and appropriateness of his appeals. State newspapers were examined to locate his speeches, which were categorized by period and subject. Examination of the data revealed four specific racial exigencies to which Hampton responded: (1) the loss of black labor(1865-66), (2) black suffrage (1867-68), (3) black political domination (1876), and (4) proscription of black political participation (1877-78). His gubernatorial campaign of 1876 and representative responses to each exigence were critiqued using the methodology of the rhetorical situation. The speeches were analyzed in terms of exigence, audience, constraints, and appropriateness. The following conclusions were drawn: (1) over ninety percent of Hampton's reported speeches 1865-1878 addressed the racial exigence. (2) His speeches were remarkably consistent with one another and with his private correspondence. (3) Hampton envisioned a white controlled society with blacks performing most of the labor while enjoying legal equality, educational opportunity, and possibilities for political office. To achieve that end he asked whites to recognize the new political realities, treat the blacks with kindness and fairness, and grant them legal and political rights and privileges. To the blacks, he appealed to their sense of identification as southern men and contended that economically they were inextricably linked to the fate of the native whites. To audiences black and white his ethos was his most dominant appeal. Throughout the period he sought rhetorical rather than violent means for modifying the exigencies. His speeches reveal an approach to the racial issue that was pragmatic and moderate.

https://repository.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5509&context=gradschool_disstheses

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Cheers,
USS ALASKA