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See also:HAMPTON, See also:WADE (1818-1902) , See also:American See also:cavalry See also:leader was See also:born on the 28th of See also:March 1818 at See also:Columbia, See also:South Carolina, the son of Wade Hampton (1791-1858), one of the wealthiest planters in the South, and the See also:grandson of Wade Hampton (1754-1835), a See also:captain in the See also:War of See also:Independence and a brigadier-See also:general in the War of 1812. He graduated (1836) at South Carolina See also:College, and was trained for the See also:law. He devoted himself, however, to the management of his See also:great plantations in South Carolina and in See also:Mississippi, and took See also:part in See also:state politics and legislation. Though his own views were opposed to the prevailing state-rights See also:tone of South Carolinian See also:opinion, he threw himself heartily into the See also:Southern cause in 1861, raising a mixed command known as " Hampton's See also:Legion," which he led at the first See also:battle of See also:Bull Run. During the See also:Civil War he served in the See also:main with the See also:Army of See also:Northern See also:Virginia in See also:Stuart's cavalry See also:corps. After Stuart's See also:death Hampton distinguished himself greatly in opposing See also:Sheridan in the See also:Shenandoah Valley, and was made See also:lieutenant-general to command See also:- LEE
- LEE (or LEGIT) ROWLAND (d. 1543)
- LEE, ANN (1736–1784)
- LEE, ARTHUR (1740–1792)
- LEE, FITZHUGH (1835–1905)
- LEE, GEORGE ALEXANDER (1802-1851)
- LEE, HENRY (1756-1818)
- LEE, JAMES PRINCE (1804-1869)
- LEE, NATHANIEL (c. 1653-16g2)
- LEE, RICHARD HENRY (1732-1794)
- LEE, ROBERT EDWARD (1807–1870)
- LEE, SIDNEY (1859– )
- LEE, SOPHIA (1950-1824)
- LEE, STEPHEN DILL (1833-1908)
Lee's whole force of cavalry. In 1865 he assisted See also:Joseph See also:Johnston in the See also:attempt to prevent See also:Sherman's advance through the Carolinas. After the war his attitude was conciliatory and he recommended a See also:frank See also:acceptance by the South of the war's See also:political consequences. He was See also:governor of his state in 1876-x879, being installed after a memorable contest; he served in the See also:United States See also:Senate in 1879-1891, and was United States See also:commissioner of Pacific See also:railways in 1893-1897. He died on the 11th of See also:April 1902.
See E. L. See also:Wells, Hampton and Reconstruction (Columbia, S. C., 1907).
End of Article: HAMPTON, WADE (1818-1902)
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