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1818 - 1902 (84 years)| Name | Wade HAMPTON [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] | |
| Prefix | General | |
| Suffix | III | |
| Birth | 28 Mar 1818 | Rhett-FitzSimons house on Hasell Street, Charleston, South Carolina  [8] |
| Gender | Male | |
| Education | Columbia Academy, earned an A. B. degree at South Carolina College in 1836. Trained as a lawyer but never practiced because he was basically a gentleman farmer with plantations in Mississippi and South Carolina [9, 10, 11] | |
| HIST | He was called the wealthiest man in the South prior to the Civil War, he owned over 10,000 acres, several thousand slaves and five cotton plantations in Mississippi. He owned Millwood Plantation in Columbia, South Carolina. The old Woodlands plantation, where crop rotation and fertilizers were used was still profitable, while Wade III struggled with debt in Mississippi. of Columbia, South Carolina Date Published: November 8, 2009 Wade Hampton legacy topic at USC COLUMBIA — Prize-winning writer and scholar Dr. Ron Andrew will discuss the legacy of South Carolina Confederate son Wade Hampton III Thursday, Nov. 12, at the University of South Carolina. The talk, centered on Andrew's 2008 biography of Hampton, titled "Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer," will take place at 7 p.m. at the Inn at USC. It is free and open to the public. Andrew, a historian at Clemson University, won the 2009 Mary Lawton Hodges Prize in Southern Studies for the biography because of its groundbreaking analysis of Hampton's role during Reconstruction as a conservative white leader. "Dr. Andrew's book is a realistic view of a man whose story has often been clouded by myths," said Dr. Walter Edgar, university professor and author of numerous books on South Carolina history. "The Institute for Southern Studies is grateful to the Hodges family for their generous support of this prize and this important lecture." The Mary Lawton Hodges Prize in Southern Studies was established by the university's Institute for Southern Studies in 2006 to recognize a scholar with the most original work that furthers understanding of the American South. Previous winners have included James C. Cobb, "Away Down South"; and William Freehling, "The Road to Disunion, Volume II: Secessionists Triumphant, 1854 – 1861." An expert in Southern history, Andrew has taught at Clemson since 2000 and also written about the tradition of Southern military schools. For more information about Andrew's lecture and other Institute for Southern Studies events, call Bob Ellis at (803) 777-2340 or visit the Web site: www.cas.sc/ISS. Hampton Avenue one of Sumter's original streets This is the Gaillard home at 318 West Hampton Avenue, photographed around 1900. Posted Sunday, October 11, 2015 6:00 am BY SAMMY WAY WAYSAMMY@YAHOO.COM This week's edition of Reflections continues a discussion of Sumter's streets. This article focuses on Hampton Avenue and some of the numerous businesses and families that have thrived along its boundaries. Most sources define avenue as "a straight route with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side ... also a thoroughfare running at right angles to the streets on a grid pattern." Hampton Avenue was and remains one of Sumter's most historic streets. Many of the businesses and homes located along this thoroughfare played an important role in our community's development. The information used in preparing this article was taken from The Sumter Item archives and the writings of Cassie Nichols. The photos are from The Sumter Item archives or were provided. Cassie Nicholes notes in her text, "Historical Sketches of Sumter County," that "when the town of Sumterville was laid out, there were only eight named streets. The chief street, running north and south, was known as Broad; but the reason for this choice of a name is not known. Sometime later the name was changed to Main. From the beginning, Harvin Street, named for either William R. Harvin or the Harvin family, ran parallel to Main from Republican Street (now Hampton Avenue) to Marion (now Calhoun Street), named, no doubt, for Francis Marion." The evolution of Hampton Avenue is explained as follows: " ... by vote of the City Council on September 24, 1902, the name Republican Street was changed to Hampton Avenue probably in honor of General Wade Hampton. It was possibly named in the beginning from the regime of the four presidents, who were known as Jeffersonian Democrats and sometimes Republicans (1801-1828.) These are four of the only named streets on the original map. Two others running north and south were Sumter and Washington. The reason for their names is obvious." Hampton Avenue remains one of the longest thoroughfares to traverse the city limits. The street extends from Riley to Green Street and serves as home for a number of structures including private homes, businesses and religious facilities. Through the course of time many of the historic buildings have been removed or renovated to accommodate new businesses or other concerns. Reach Item Archivist Sammy Way at waysammy@yahoo.com or (803) 774-1294. Legal change could be slow for controversial S.C. memorials Joe Patrizzi III, a worker with Roth Restoration, power washes graffiti from a statue of John C. Calhoun in 2015 in Charleston. The statue has been removed from Marion Square. AP FILE PHOTO Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2020 6:00 am By FLEMING SMITH The Post and Courier CHARLESTON - For 17 hours, crowds of Charlestonians waited for the John C. Calhoun statue to be removed from its 115-foot-high perch in Marion Square. Many stayed through the night and into a sun-drenched day because they felt it was a historic moment. Largely overlooked and unseen was the Wade Hampton Monument, tucked in the corner of Marion Square by Meeting Street. It's less likely to draw the eye than the larger-than-life likeness of Calhoun that gazed down at the city. The memorial to Hampton, a long-past Confederate general, U.S. senator and governor is an obelisk, easy to pass by. Hampton's successful 1876 gubernatorial election was marred by violence from the Red Shirts, a paramilitary group that worked to suppress Black voting. Noted University of South Carolina historian and author Walter Edgar described the group in his "South Carolina: A History" as being active in Hampton's campaign. "Everywhere he went, he was accompanied by hundreds of mounted men clad in red shirts," Edgar wrote of one tour of the state. Otherwise, Hampton was called the "redeemer" as South Carolina stepped out from under the post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction. Like the estimated 200 Confederate memorials dotted throughout South Carolina, the Hampton obelisk became part of the landscape. Protests over the death of George Floyd in May have brought them back into the limelight, though many have been controversial since their first dedications. In Fort Mill, there's even a monument to the "faithful slaves" of the Confederacy. Another marker, in Moncks Corner, was erected as recently as 2011. Now, these symbols have become battlegrounds. In July, the specter of violence was raised by those determined to destroy or defend such monuments. Some have displayed guns or pledged to arm themselves, while one pair tried to blow up a statue on Statehouse grounds in Columbia. The fight will be long, and there's no clear end in sight. Calhoun's descent from his pillar, and national furor over such monuments, doesn't mean a tidal wave of removals is coming in South Carolina. A South Carolina law makes it a slow process, and even then the political will isn't quite there to make changes. Communities themselves are divided, asking if removing such monuments destroys history and how to decide what deserves memorializing. The Heritage Act, enacted in 2000 as a compromise for removing the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse Dome, requires that legislators have the final say in what happens to war memorials. Since 2000, it's been used twice. Now, some lawmakers are pushing to repeal that law and give the power to local communities. Shortly before the Calhoun monument came down, state Sen. Marlon Kimpson, D-Charleston, said he was working on a bipartisan coalition to repeal the Heritage Act. That doesn't mean immediate change. "There is reluctance among many in the General Assembly on both sides ... to rekindle these discussions," Kimpson said. "It's a very polarizing issue in our state." Kimpson, though, said he feels optimistic for when the new session of the Legislature convenes in January. "I think time is on our side," he said. For Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey, R-Edgefield, delving into symbolic issues isn't the best use of the Legislature's time. "You get worried about having ancillary debates that distract you from those very important issues," he said, referencing police reform, education and other topics he believes will make the real, lasting changes to improve residents' lives. "And it doesn't take a whole lot for us to get distracted anyway, and when we get distracted, we can be distracted for a month." He also worries that taking down statues or renaming buildings and streets means erasing history instead of confronting it. His alma mater, Clemson University, has petitioned the Legislature to remove Benjamin Tillman's name from a campus building. Tillman was an ardent white supremacist who rose to power after Reconstruction by terrorizing, even killing, African-Americans to prevent them from voting. His disenfranchise policies, written into South Carolina's 1895 constitution, were copied by other states, creating the Jim Crow-era South. A statue of the former governor and U.S. senator also rests on Statehouse grounds. "You can't defend Ben Tillman," Massey said. "The problem is that once you open the Heritage Act, it's not going to stop with Ben Tillman." If you remove monuments, he said, even to a museum, it's highly unlikely that people will learn about Tillman and the roles he and other powerful politicians of their time had in shaping not only the state, but also the nation. School children don't unfortunately, he said, partly because state history is taught primarily in third grade, too young for substantive discussions and analysis. And how often do most adults visit museums, he questioned. "Once things are out of sight, they're out of mind. There's a reason for the expression," Massey said. "It's important to know those things, I think, even as bad as they are. You don't need to celebrate them, but you need to know about them." Historians have disputed the historic value or learning potential of Confederate monuments. Hampton, whose monument sits nearly unnoticed in Marion Square, honors the victor of the 1876 gubernatorial election. "He kept Blacks from getting power, that's his accomplishment," said Adam Domby, a College of Charleston professor who recently published a book titled "False Cause: Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory." It's inevitable that more communities will request removal of such monuments, he said. Charleston's removal of the Calhoun statue didn't necessarily set a precedent, as state Attorney General Alan Wilson agreed that the Heritage Act didn't apply. If the Legislature doesn't address these requests, South Carolina could see what's happening in other states - preemptive action by protesters who have torn them down. Some residents have already tried to take matters into their own hands. In Columbia, two people left an "incendiary device" at the base of the Tillman statue on Statehouse grounds, but it failed to cause any damage. Still, Domby said, leaving these monuments up, especially the most controversial ones, could endanger people and ensure their destruction. If preserving history is the goal, removing them to a safer, less public location would be best, he said "Human life is far more important than any monument," he said. "(Lawmakers) need to do something." Many monuments to the Confederacy, or the ideologues of its cause, were erected in the past century, decades after the war ended. According to data from the Southern Poverty Law Center, their dedications correspond to periods of disenfranchisement for African Americans, along with another resurgence during the civil rights movement. In South Carolina, the latest monument was dedicated in 2011 in Moncks Corner for Confederate soldiers of Berkeley County. Five have been constructed in the state in the current century. Tensions are high on both sides of the debate, and with power remaining with a reluctant Legislature communities may be left in stalemates. Orangeburg City Council voted in early July to send a resolution to legislators asking to remove a Confederate monument and rename John C. Calhoun Drive. With the General Assembly returning in September with a strict agenda, it's unlikely they'll have the time or willpower to devote to it, or to any of the other petitions they've received. With monuments left in limbo, the fight to remove them, or to protect them, rages on. At the Confederate Defenders of Charleston monument near The Battery, some protesters and monument supporters have recently brought guns or sworn to arm themselves as they face off on Sundays. Three men were arrested for assault after last Sunday's confrontation. Though made of stone or metal, it seems these symbols are more alive than ever - and they're becoming the center of an ongoing fight that remains a trigger for discord. Seanna Adcox contributed to this report. [3, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14] | |
| MILI | He was commander of Hampton’s Cavalry Brigade, founder of Hampton’s SC Confederate Legion of infantry and artillery and, eventually, the commander of all cavalry forces in the Army of Northern Virginia after the death of Major-General James Ewell Brown Stuart. Hampton resigned as a member of the General Assembly in 1861 to accept a commission in the Confederate Army. During the war, he was wounded three times. In 1865, he led the cavalry in an unsuccessful attempt to repel Sherman’s advance through the Carolinas. During the Civil War, he raised and commanded “Hampton’s Legion,” was promoted to major general in August 1863, and commanded the Cavalry of the Army of North Virginia. He was General in Command of the Confederate Cavalry after Jeb Stuart was killed. He, so long opposed to secession and the institution of slavery, no longer hesitated. He offered his cotton and his life to the Confederacy. Leaving Mississippi, he stopped in Montgomery (Alabama) to see President Davis. Cotton stored at Walnut Ridge could be sold in Europe and exchanged for armaments, and Wade proposed to form a legion of 1,000 men to be financed with his own funds. Davis accepted and commissioned him a colonel in the Confederate Army. [1, 9, 10, 15, 16] | |
| Occupation | General in Civil War, planter, soldier, politician; governor 1876-1879 as a Conservative Democrat [12] | |
| _UID | 559EA90076CC4869A7652EA75AB0F6F8684B | |
| Death | 11 Apr 1902 | Columbia, South Carolina [17] |
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| Burial | 13 Apr 1902 | Trinity Episcopal Church Cemetery, Columbia, South Carolina [18, 19] |
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| Person ID | I499 | Singleton and Related Families |
| Last Modified | 16 Jul 2020 | |
| Father | Wade HAMPTON, II, b. 21 Apr 1791, Woodlands, Richland County, South Carolina d. 9 Feb 1858, Walnut Ridge, Issaquena County, Mississippi (Age 66 years) | |
| Mother | Ann FITZSIMMONS, b. 1 Jan 1794, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina d. 27 Feb 1833, Millwood, Richland County, South Carolina (Age 39 years) | |
| Marriage | 6 Mar 1817 | Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina [20] |
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| Family ID | F18257 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 1 | Margaret Frances PRESTON, b. 13 Jan 1818, Abingdon, Virginia d. 27 Jun 1852, Columbia, Richland County, South Carolina (Age 34 years) | |||||||||||
| Marriage | 10 Oct 1838 | Abingdon, Virginia [11] |
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| Family ID | F18256 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||||||
| Last Modified | 18 Dec 2001 | |||||||||||
| Family 2 | Mary Singleton McDUFFIE, b. 7 Jul 1830, Home Plantation, Sumter District, South Carolina d. 1 Mar 1874, Charlottesville, Virginia (Age 43 years) | |||||||||
| Marriage | 27 Jan 1857/58 | Ablemarle, Home Of John Coles Singleton And Mary Lewis Carter, A Few Miles Out Of Columbia, South Carolina [12, 21, 22, 23] |
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