Father of Wade Hampton; Thomas Jefferson Hampton; Hariet F. Hampton; Grace Hampton; John Preston Hampton and 10 others; Wade Hampton, II; Maj. Wade Hampton, IV; John Preston Hampton; Lt. Preston Hampton (CSA); Sally Hampton; Harriet Flud Hampton; George McDuffie Hampton; Mary S. "Daisy" Tucker; Alfred Hampton and Catherine Fisher Hampton less [3], In 1836 Hampton graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina), and was trained for the law, although he never practiced. That year, the Radical Republicans took the election. Hampton publicly decried the violence that surrounded the election, but he tacitly countenanced the widespread campaign of intimidation practiced against Blacks and white Republicans by the Red Shirts, the army of armed and often mounted Hampton supporters who accompanied him on his campaign appearances. He worked to explain the Confederacy's loss of the war and deeply regretted the loss of the secure life he had before the war. Hampton, a Democrat, ran against Republican incumbent governor Daniel Henry Chamberlain. There is a Hampton Park in Charleston and a Hampton Park in Columbia named after Hampton. He was a hereditary member of the South Carolina Society of the Cincinnati. He resigned from the governorship to serve two terms in the Senate, until 1891. He was a Bourbon Democrat who appealed to some freedmen in support of his win. Hampton served as a commissioner of Pacific Railways from 1893 to 1897 before retiring to Columbia, South Carolina. After gaining office in the contested gubernatorial election of 1876, he served as the governor of South Carolina from 1877 to 1879. He served as a senator until 1891, having been defeated for reelection the previous year by John Irby. Hampton was reluctant to surrender, and nearly got into a personal fight with Union Brig. He possessed a native reserve that some would mistake for arrogance. ampton, Harriet Flud Hampton, Catherine M. 'kate' Hampton, Ann M. Hampton, Caroline Louisa Hampton, Frank Hampton, Mary Fisher lly Preston Haskell (born Hampton), Harriet Flud Hampton, George Mcduffie Hampton, Mary Singleton 'daisy' Tucker (born Hampton) Wade Hampton, Ann Hampton (born Fitzsimmons), Hampton, Harriet Flud Hampton, Catherine Pritchard Hampton, Ann M. Hampton, Caroline Louisa Hampton, Col. Frank Hampton, Mary Fisher Hampton, Wade Hampton, Thomas Preston Hampton, Sarah "sally" Haskell (born Hampton), Harriet Flud Hampton, spec ial memorial service in honor of the memory of General. His mother was from a wealthy family in Charleston. Wade Hampton was born on month day 1818, at birth place, South Carolina, to Wade Hampton and Ann Hampton. After the death of his father in 1835, he was manager of the vast estates. He was the son of General Wade Hampton (1752-1835) and Harriet Flud of South Carolina. In 1838, Hampton married Margaret Preston (18181852). Well I don't have grandkids. Held in November, the gubernatorial election is said to have been the most corrupt in South Carolina history and was characterized by polling-place intimidation and violence as well as ballot rigging, stealing, and stuffing. While just outside of town, Hampton was confronted by a Union cavalryman pointing a rifle at him from 200 yards. During the Overland Campaign of 1864, Hampton's cavalry fought at Todd's Tavern during The Wilderness, and patrolled the left flank of the Confederate position at Spotsylvania Court House, during which time J.E.B. His many slaves were freed. He was one of the largest enslavers of people in the South and one of the largest landowners in South. The Hampton family was probably acquainted with the Issaquena Turnbull family, as both families had Charleston, South Carolina connections and their Issaquena County land holdings were in the same part of the county. He essentially ceased most overt political activity until 1876. He married Ann Fitzsimmons on March 6, 1817 in Charleston, South Carolina (daughter of Christopher Fitzsimons and Catharine Pritchard). For the rest of the war, Hampton lost no cavalry battles. In 1836 he graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina), and was trained for the law, although he never practiced. . Congressman, and wealthy plantation owner. The school merged with Willington Academy in 1986 to become Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, Inc. His brigade was selected to participate in Stuart's Chambersburg Raid in October 1862, in which Hampton was briefly appointed "military governor" of the town following its surrender to the Confederate cavalry. He came from a wealthy planter family, and shortly before the war he was one of the largest slaveholders in the Southeast as well as a state legislator. Hampton, Wade 1752-1835 http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000140, Wade Hampton Papers. He personally paid for all the weapons for the Legion. Historic Columbia collection. Wade is 17 degrees from Jennifer Aniston, 12 degrees from Drew Barrymore, 16 degrees from Candice Bergen, 21 degrees from Alexandre Dumas, 15 degrees from Carrie Fisher, 29 degrees from Whitney Houston, 16 degrees from Hayley Mills, 15 degrees from Liza Minnelli, 12 degrees from Lisa Presley, 18 degrees from Kiefer Sutherland, 14 degrees from Bill Veeck and 22 degrees from Brian Nash on our single family tree. Hampton was reelected in 1878 but resigned the following year after being elected to the U.S. Senate. The plantations were overseen by 44 year old Thomas Hamel, an Irish immigrant who moved to Issaquena County from South Carolina and A.F. In Greenville County, South Carolina, the section of U.S. Route 29 that connects the city of Greenville to Spartanburg is called Wade Hampton Boulevard. He was not known to have active involvement within the organization. He then studied law but never practiced. He was promoted to lieutenant general on February 14, 1865, but eventually surrendered to the Union along with General Joseph E. Johnston's Army of Tennessee at Bennett Place in Durham, North Carolina. Early, Hampton became a proponent of the Lost Cause movement. Wade HamptonHampton was offered the nomination for governor in 1865, but refused because he felt that those in the North would be suspicious of a former Confederate general seeking political office only months after the end of the Civil War. Though lacking military experience, he organized and commanded Hamptons Legion of South Carolina troops. Stuart, age 30. In 1913, Judge John Randolph Tucker named the Wade Hampton Census Area in Alaska to commemorate his father-in-law (it was renamed Kusilvak Census Area in 2015 to remove the blemish of having a place named for a slave-holding Confederate general).[20]. His uncle, James Henry Hammond, was a member of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, as well as a Governor of South Carolina. He was one of only three officers without previous military experience (the other two being Nathan Bedford Forrest and Richard Taylor, son of President Zachary Taylor) to achieve the rank of lieutenant general in the Confederate service. The library fills two large rooms, and cost, probably, twenty thousand dollars. ", That's when the CEO of the Anne Arundel County Public Library in Maryland changed his first name from Hampton to Charles his father's middle name writing on the petition that he didn't like the idea of being named after a "terrorist.". Husband of Margaret Hampton; Frances "Fanny" Cosgrave; Margaret Buchanan Frances Hampton and Mary Singleton Hampton [citation needed], He was elected to the South Carolina General Assembly in 1852 and served as a state Senator from 1858 to 1861. He served as Governor of South Carolina from 1876 to 1879 and was elected in 1878 as a Democrat to the United States Senate. Wade Hampton III Monument, 2019. Have you taken a DNA test? She was born January 1, 1794 in Charleston and died February 26, 1833 on Millwood Plantation, Richland County, South Carolina. Two high schools in South Carolina are named "Wade Hampton High School," one in Greenville and the other in Hampton. In 1964, Wade Hampton Academy was charted in Orangeburg; the school later merged with Willington Academy in 1986 to become Orangeburg Preparatory Schools, Inc.Statues of Governor Hampton have been erected at both the South Carolina Capitol and the US Capitol. Due to their crude reputation and hopes of alleviating Union suspicion, Hampton used Grace Piexotto's "The Big Brick House", a prominent brothel located at 11 Fulton Street, to assure complete privacy for the Red Shirts' meeting ground, which was mainly served as campaign headquarters (Jones 2006: 22-23). The Red Shirts had used violence in every county to suppress black Republican voting. He was carried back to Virginia in the same ambulance as General John Bell Hood. Wade III's uncle by marriage, James Henry Hammond, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, Governor of South Carolina and, in the late 1850s, elected to the United States Senate. The first Wade Hampton grew up on the Tyger River in what is now Spartanburg County, just east of Greer, across the river from the current Tab's Flea Market. He became a lieutenant of the dragoons in 1811, and was acting inspector general and aide to . Of officers without previous military experience, he was one of three to achieve the rank of Lieutenant General in the Confederate States Army. It was just something very personal to me. Wade Hampton died in Columbia in 1902. He was reelected in 1884 and served from March 4, 1879 until March 3, 1891. Despite refusing to announce his candidacy for the Senate, Hampton was elected to the United States Senate by the General Assembly on the same day his leg was amputated. contient des milliers de photos et GeneaStars. After the Peninsula Campaign, General Robert E. Lee reorganized his cavalry forces as a division under the command of J.E.B. The Wade Hampton Battery was one of four coastal artillery batteries and contained two 10-inch guns. He was the most revered man in the history of South Carolina, and yet he died an old man in near poverty. [citation needed] Several weeks later, his right leg was amputated due to complications arising from this injury. In November 1862, he captured 137 men of the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry at Hartwood Presbyterian Church.[6]. He may not of had the chance to get married and have children.I assume that you know who Wade Hampton III was?There are many history books on him - including biographies.He was a heroic Lieutenant General in the Civil war and was a Senator for the state of SC before that. He was grandson of Wade Hampton (17541835), lieutenant colonel of cavalry in the American War of Independence, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and brigadier general in the War of 1812. Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. I think that's been a lot of self-reflection for me over the past month, ways I might have dishonored people or not really listened to the black friends or colleagues or people that I work with. Wade Hampton III was descended from a prominent South Carolina family. Wade Hampton III inherited a sound physique and a love for the outdoors from his father and grandfather. The town of Hampton Courthouse, later shortened to Hampton, was incorporated on December 23, 1879, to serve as the county seat of Hampton County. At least eight municipalities in South Carolina have a street named "Wade Hampton" (Beaufort, Charleston, Duncan, Greenville, Greer, Hampton, Taylors, Walterboro) and in approximately 47 towns of South Carolina are streets named "Hampton." After the war, he was elected Governor, serving 1876 to 1879. Andrea Hsu, Elena Burnett and Justine Kenin produced and edited the audio version of this story. He devoted himself, instead, to the management of his great plantations in South Carolina and Mississippi, and took part in state politics. Hampton's plantations included: Wild Woods Plantation in Mississippi, which covered 835 acres. [1] The younger man also became active in Democratic state politics. As it was fashionable (according to Mitchell) to name baby boys after their fathers' commanding officers, Scarlett's son by Charles is named Wade Hampton Hamilton. Under his father's training he became a good horseman, a famous hunter, and an accomplished fisherman. Volume - Apr 11 1902, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=439, Planter, Lieutenant General-CSA Calvalry, Politician, At the end of Reconstruction, with the withdrawal of federal troops from the state, Hampton was leader of the. In South Carolina and other states, groups of men calling themselves "rifle clubs" formed to act as vigilantes in the years after the war. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick (often called "Kill-Cavalry") at the Bennett Farm. After Hampton's father died in 1858, the son inherited his vast fortune, his plantations, and his slaves. As his wounds from Gettysburg were slow to heal, he could not return to duty until November. Their children were: Wade Hampton IV (18401879), Thomas Preston Hampton (18431864, killed in the war), Sarah Buchanan Hampton (18451886), John Preston Hampton (18461847), and Harriet Flud Hampton (18481853). Despite refusing to announce his candidacy for the Senate, Hampton was elected to the United States Senate by the General Assembly on the same day as the amputation of his leg. Hampton first saw combat in July 1861, at the First Battle of Bull Run, where he deployed his Legion at a decisive moment, giving the brigade of Thomas J. His uncle, James Henry Hammond, was a member of both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, as well as a Governor of South Carolina. Hampton was born in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest son of Wade Hampton II (1791-1858), known as "Colonel Wade Hampton", one of the wealthiest planters in the South (and the owner of the largest number of slaves), an officer of dragoons in the War of 1812, and an aide to General Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans. Both Hampton and Chamberlain ended up claiming to be governor until Chamberlain left the state in 1877 when federal troops, who had been keeping a modicum of public order, withdrew. [2] The youth was known for taking hunting trips alone into the woods, hunting American black bears with only a knife. Agnes Douglas , Alexander Livingston, Margaret Elizabeth Mosby , James Wade. Wade Hampton (1752 - February 4, 1835) was a South Carolina soldier, politician, two-term U.S. Early, of the Lost Cause movement, attempting to explain away the Confederacy's loss of the war. The tale of James Henry Hammond has broken into the mainstream and away from the restricting barriers set up by the Hammond family - barriers to conceal the private matters of their famous. Please enable JavaScript in your browser's settings to use this part of Geni. Hampton was also extremely close to his sisters and cared for them financially with the death of his father in 1858. in Columbia, South Carolina, USA, This form allows you to report an error or to submit additional information about this family tree: Wade HAMPTON (1818), Copyright Wikipdia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.0. He was elected Governor, serving 1876 to 1879. The commissioners of those counties then reported voting fraud, calling the election results into question again. Son McDuffie received three silver racing cups and the remainder of his silver was divided among the three children. A bullet creased Hampton's forehead when he led a charge against a Union artillery position. [8] Hampton supported Matthew Calbraith Butler in the Union Reform campaign of 1870. Wrong username or password. Hampton charged the trooper before he could fire his rifle, but another trooper blindsided Hampton with a saber cut to the back of his head. In October 1864, near Petersburg, Virginia, Hampton sent his son, Thomas Preston, a lieutenant and an aide to his father, to deliver a message. The election of the first Democrat in South Carolina since the end of the Civil War, as well as the national election of Rutherford B. Hayes as President, signified the end of Reconstruction in the South. hide caption. Stuart, who selected Hampton as his senior subordinate, to command one of two cavalry brigades. An equestrian statue by Frederick W. Ruckstull was erected on the grounds of the S.C. state capitol in Columbia, in 1906. According to the 1860 Issaquena County slave schedules, the Hampton family plantations in the county were the homes to 335 slaves. Updates? He served again in Congress from 1803 to 1805. From 1852 to 1861 Hampton served in the South Carolina legislature. An error has occured while loading the map. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. --- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, {{ mediasCtrl.getTitle(media, true) }} Growing up, Skip Auld says he didn't know much about the man his great-grandfather was named after. ", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade_Hampton_III. Wade Hampton III died in Columbia, South Carolina on April 11, 1902. He resigned from the governorship in 1879 and served two terms in the Senate, until 1891, but was denied a third term by the Tillmanites in the state elections of 1890. Relationship with Timothy Michael Dowling (Sosa/Ahnentafel #1), Relationship with Margaret Buchanan Frances Preston (spouse), Browse using this individual as Sosa/Ahnentafel #1, , born 13January1818 - Abingdon, Washington Co., VA, deceased 27January1852 - Columbia, Richland Co., SC aged 34years old, Sources: Dowling Family Tree - Tim Dowling - rootsweb, 2001-2015 - - electronic - I328425, Marriage (with Margaret Buchanan Frances Preston), Conscription - Lt. Gen., Confederate Army, Elected - United States Senator from South Carolina, List of all individuals in the family tree, {{ 'gw_downgraded_access_back_to_max'|translate }}, Born 28March1818 - Charleston, Berkeley Co., SC, Deceased 11April1902 - Columbia, Richland Co., SC, Wade Hampton II was born in 1791 and died in 1858). Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Categories: National Statuary Hall Collection, Washington, DC | Charleston, South Carolina | Columbia, South Carolina | Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cemetery, Columbia, South Carolina | Confederate Army, United States Civil War | Confederate States Army Generals, United States Civil War | US Senators from South Carolina | South Carolina Governors | South Carolina, Notables | Notables, WIKITREE HOME | ABOUT | G2G FORUM | HELP | SEARCH. On April 6, 1814 he resigned his commission and returned to South Carolina where he acquired a large fortune with land speculating. After the war, Hampton found his property and wealth diminished. Leading his people out of Reconstruction was - in my opinion - Wade Hamptons providential purpose, and certainly his greatest achievement. As was also the case in northern regiments, the elite were commissioned based on their social standing and were also expected to finance military units. In Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara's first husband, Charles Hamilton, serves in Hampton's regiment. He was the scion of the politically important Hampton family, which was influential in state politics almost into the 20th century. From 1893 to 1897, Hampton served as United States Railroad Commissioner, appointed by President Grover Cleveland. l*aMea Away at a Itlpe Old A-c. Some accounts credit him with killing as many as 80 bears. 1 of 16. Gen. Judson Kilpatrick at the Bennett Farm. In Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, Scarlet O'Hara's first husband, Charles Hamilton, serves in Hampton's regiment, dying of measles only seven weeks later. Agnes Douglas , Alexander Livingston, Margaret Elizabeth Mosby , James Wade. In the North and South trilogy by John Jakes, the character Charles Main serves with Hampton's cavalry throughout the Civil War. Wade Hampton, III, CSA, US Sen., Gov., 1818 - 1902. 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