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    Wade Hampton III (March 28, 1818 – April 11, 1902) was an American military officer who joined the Confederate States of America during the American Civil...
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  • Wade Hampton II (April 21, 1791 – February 10, 1858) was an American politician, plantation owner, and soldier in the War of 1812. He was a member of the...
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    Wade Hampton III is a 1929 marble sculpture depicting the military officer and politician of the same name by Frederick Ruckstull, installed in the United...
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    Wade Hampton (early 1750s – February 4, 1835) was an American soldier and politician. A two-term U.S. congressman, he may have been the wealthiest planter...
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    The town and the county are named after Wade Hampton III, a Confederate general in the Civil War. Hampton County was created from northwestern portions...
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    South Carolina planter Wade Hampton III. Initially composed of infantry, cavalry, and artillery battalions, elements of Hampton's Legion participated in...
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  • 1812 and U.S. congressman Wade Hampton II (1791–1858), American plantation owner and soldier in War of 1812 Wade Hampton III (1818–1902), American Civil...
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  • January 2006 on the same site.[citation needed] Wade Hampton High School takes its name from Wade Hampton III who was one of the largest slave owners in the...
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    General Wade Hampton III who, at the time of the Civil War, owned one of the largest collections of slaves in the South. After the Civil War, Hampton became...
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    Owned by Colonel Wade Hampton II and his wife Ann Fitzsimmons Hampton, it was the boyhood home of their first son Wade Hampton III and other children...
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    who claimed the governorship as a Republican, conceded to Democrat Wade Hampton III on April 11, 1877. This came after President Rutherford Hayes withdrew...
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    favorite hunting preserve for the Hampton family and their friends. Young Wade Hampton III learned to ride horses at High Hampton, a skill that served him well...
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    James H. Hammond (category Wade Hampton family)
    of Wade Hampton II and uncle to his children, including Wade Hampton III. When the senior Hampton learned that Hammond had raped his four Hampton nieces...
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  • in the operating room. Caroline Hampton was a member of a prominent southern U.S. family; her uncle, Wade Hampton III, was a Confederate General, governor...
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    Kusilvak Census Area, formerly known as Wade Hampton Census Area, is a census area located in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2020 census, the population...
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    overwhelmingly favored his opponent, ex-Confederate Wade Hampton, III. Through the winter, Chamberlain and Hampton both claimed to lead the lawful government,...
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    held on November 5, 1878 to select the governor of South Carolina. Wade Hampton III was renominated by the Democrats and ran against no organized opposition...
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    Democrats succeeded in "redeeming" the state government and electing Wade Hampton III as governor. During the remainder of the century, they passed laws...
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  • most South Carolinians, including the state's leading opinion-maker, Wade Hampton III, believed that white citizens would do well to accept President Andrew...
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    independent divisions under Hampton and Fitz Lee. The second commander, wealthy South Carolina planter Wade Hampton III, had served as the senior brigade...
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    leadership role in the 1876 Democratic political campaign to elect Wade Hampton III as governor, planning a detailed campaign to disrupt the Republican...
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  • Beefsteak Raid of September 1864 led by Confederate Major General Wade Hampton III. Mexican cattleman Alvarez Kelly (William Holden) is contracted to...
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    life and prominent friends such as John Bell Hood, Louis T. Wigfall, Wade Hampton III, and Jefferson Davis. James Chesnut Jr., was born the youngest of fourteen...
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    was elected as governor of South Carolina. The county is named for Wade Hampton III, one of the country's leading slaveowners and a Lieutenant General...
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    Greene, Rhode Island Ernest Gruening, Alaska Hannibal Hamlin, Maine Wade Hampton III, South Carolina John Hanson, Maryland Samuel Houston, Texas John James...
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    Gaither – Career Army officer. Lieutenant General, Governor and Senator Wade Hampton III Lieutenant General John C.H. Lee – Commander of the Services of Supply...
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    switched his party affiliation. He worked for the campaign of Democrat Wade Hampton III, who won the 1876 election for governor in a season marked by violent...
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    Reconstruction. He actively campaigned for fellow Confederate general Wade Hampton in the 1876 gubernatorial contest and was elected on the Democratic state...
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  • advance, forced Confederate forces, under the command of Generals Wade Hampton III and Joseph Wheeler, to withdraw in haste. The Confederates were frantically...
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    their Reconstruction policies. Opponents disputed the challenger Wade Hampton III's victory, gained by a margin of little more than 1100 votes statewide...
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