He died in debt to several creditors but is still remembered as one of the South’s great generals. He and his family lost much of their property and wealth, and he was never able to accumulate wealth to match what he had before the war, proving prescient his long-held belief that the war would wreck him and the South financially if they lost. After Stuart was killed Hampton became General Lee’s cavalry commander, until he decided he needed to go back to help his home state of South Carolina in the waning days of the war.Īfter the war, Hampton was elected governor of South Carolina and served as a U.S. These two were junior in rank to Hampton but seemed to get favorable jobs and supplies. Hampton (and others) felt that Lee and Stuart favored Virginians over soldiers from other states worse, he believed that Lee favored his nephew, Fitz Hugh Lee, and his son, Rodney Lee, too much. He became one of General Lee’s best generals despite several differences of opinion with General Lee and his cavalry commander, General J.E.B. Starting out in the army and later transferring to the cavalry, he turned out to be a very good soldier and officer, especially considering that he learned the profession while on the job. Hampton joined Confederate forces as a colonel and ended the war as a lieutenant general. As was often the case with many of the generals of the Confederate Army, he supported his state more than the Confederacy per se.
Hampton didn’t really support secession he only supported the Confederacy after South Carolina decided to secede from the Union. He and his family owned several plantations and manors in South Carolina and Mississippi, making Hampton wealthy enough to essentially raise his own small army at the onset of the war between the states. Hampton was one of the richest men in the South before the Civil War. Longacre focuses on Confederate General Wade Hampton III’s military career but also introduces his and his prominent Southern family’s past. In Gentleman and Soldier, prolific Civil War historian Edward G.
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