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Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman
On the eve of the American Civil War, Wade Hampton, one of the wealthiest men in the South and indeed the United States, remained loyal to his native South Carolina as it seceded from the Union. Raising his namesake Hampton Legion of soldiers, he eventually became a lieutenant general of Confederate cavalry after the death of the legendary J. E. B. Stuart. Hampton 's highl...more
Paperback, 416 pages
Published
January 16th 2006
by Potomac Books Inc.
(first published October 25th 2004)
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This book completely and shamelessly covers up the truth about the Red Shirts and rifle clubs of the post-Civil War South and their brutal and (unfortunately) successful campaign to strip all of the liberties of the freedmen after the Civil War.
The author seems unapologetic in his attempt to paint Hampton as a patriarch to the black man when, in reality, Hampton, Tillman and other notables of South Carolina used fear to limit the freedom of all non-whites.
Hampton was an i...more
The author seems unapologetic in his attempt to paint Hampton as a patriarch to the black man when, in reality, Hampton, Tillman and other notables of South Carolina used fear to limit the freedom of all non-whites.
Hampton was an i...more
I picked this up as I hadn't read all that much previously on General Hampton. I found the book surprising as the author is a South Carolinian and something of an apologist for the Confederacy, not something you see in most modern Civil War histories. The book is as much about his post Civil War politics as it is about his war time exploits. The author is clearly no fan of the Reconstruction period either, but he does make a valient effort to make Hampton into something of a racial moderate, at ...more
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