Wade Hampton

(1818 - 1902)
Home State: South Carolina
Command Billet: CO, Brigade
Branch of Service: Cavalry
Unit: Hampton's Brigade

see his Battle Report

Before the Antietam Campaign:
Pre-War Profession: Politician, planter. In 1861 he raised the Hampton Legion and was its Colonel. He led them at First Manassas (wounded) and on the Peninsula campaign. In May 1862 he was appointed BGen. and commanded Hampton's Brigade of Whiting's Division at Seven Pines (wounded).

In the Antietam Campaign:
He commanded the 1st (Hampton's) Brigade of the Cavalry Division under MGen JEB Stuart.

The remainder of the War:
He continued in command of his Brigade on the Chambersburg raid and at Gettysburg (wounded). In August 1863 he was appointed MGen. and commanded his own (Hampton's) Division in the Cavalry Corps at the Wilderness. He commanded the Army of Northern Virginia (ANV) Cavalry Corps following Stuart's death, and during the Petersburg campaign. In February 1865 he was promoted to LGen. and served in South Carolina.

After the War:
Planter, Governor of SC (1877-79), and US Senator (1879-91).

References, Sources, and other notes:
One of the three Confederate LGens without prior military training (with Richard Taylor and Nathan Bedford Forrest).

Birth Date: 3/28/1818
College: South Carolina College (1836)
Death Date: 4/11/1902    Death Place: Columbia, SC    Burial Place: Trinity Churchyard, Columbia, SC

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