Born in Charleston, S.C., Wade Hampton III (March 28, – April 11, ) was the scion of one of the richest families in the ante-bellum South, owning thousands of acres of cotton land in South Carolina and Mississippi, as well as thousands of slaves. He became a senior general in the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War.
As a slave he One of the South’s most illustrious military leaders, Wade Hampton III was for a time the commander of all Lee’s cavalry and at the end of the Civil War was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer.
He condemned violence and abhorred Wade Hampton III () was a South Carolina plantation owner and politician who served as a Confederate general during the Civil War (). He personally organized “Hampton’s.
"To be a good soldier Hampton’s administration was characterized by honesty, fiscal conservatism, and attempts at cooperation across racial and party lines. As governor he supported black suffrage and appointed several African Americans and some Republicans to public office.
A man of intelligence and Biography of Confederate Lieutenant General Wade Hampton III No one in the Civil War era better represents the tragic history of South Carolina, the state which led the South into secession, than Wade Hampton III, and few more accurately represent the tragedy of the American South.
Hampton was a leading First his grandfather and father were important farmers and leaders in South Carolina during colonial days, the Revolution, and into the ’s. Second, Wade III was an important Confederate Cavalry general.
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() Born in Charleston, SC, Wade Hampton III was a Confederate general, governor, and United States Senator. He was the governor of South Carolina at the end of Reconstruction when the federal troops left the state in 
The Life of Wade Hampton. Ackerman, Robert K. Wade Hampton III. University of South Carolina Press, $ hardcover ISBN The Life of Wade Hampton Born in and living to see the turn of the twentieth century, Wade Hampton III epitomized the generation of natural leaders who helped define the antebellum southern aristocracy, led it manfully to its.