The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-04-17
BODY OF HAMPTON AT REST
Weeping Thousands at Most impress
sive Private Funerals Ever Held
in the Palmetto State.

The burial Of Gen. Wade Hampton at
Columbia Sunday afternoon far sur
passed in the magnitude Of the de-
monstration any such occasion in the
history of the state. 1t was a private
funeral and the outpouring of the peo-
pie was spontaneous.
The family did all that was pos
sible to prevent display, and the
notice it was desired to have an unos-
tentatious ceremony probably kept
thousands away. Nothing could pre-
vent other thousands, however, from
pouring in to the city from all quar-
ters to pay their tribute.
Overlooking regular and special
trains on nine roads brought their
thousands to the city during the morn
ing. Veterans came from every town
in the state, many from North Carolina
and Georgia. There were hundreds OF
Daughters of the Confederacy and
Sons Of Veterans in line. Military
schools sent detachments. One girls
institute in Sumpter sent twelve young
women in confederate gray uniforms.
There were many military companies.
For four hours during the day the
doors of the Hampton residence were
opened and the public allowed to pass
through. Militia were on guard with
out and veterans in uniform within.
1t is estimated 5000 persons passed
by the coffin, many Of them negroes.
The leave taking at the coffin by Cen
eral Hampton's old cook and coachmen
was the most pathetic scene OF the
day.
At 4 o'clock the procession moved
from the house. There were only FOUR
carriages permitted, these being occu-
pied by the family. Hundreds Of wo-
men, who made shirts for confederate
soldiers and were tottering with age,
walked three-quarters Of mile behind
the coffin. Some men and women
who followed had to be supported on
each side by friends. One veteran
from Kershaw had been bedridden for
three years. He had himself placed
on the train, brought to General
Hampton's house and taken bodily to
the coffin.
The procession, which was two miles
long, moved in the following order:
Veterans, Camp Hampton. hearse, pail
bearers, members of General Hamp-
tons Legion, Daughters of the Confed-
eracy and other organizations OF Ia
dies, Sons of Veterans, faculty and stu
dents of South Carolina college, gov
ernor and staff, state officials and con-
gressmen, band, military organlza-
tions and other uniformed bodies, Co.
lumbia city police, city council OF Co.
lumbia and other municipal and civic
organizations, including fire compa-
MES.
The procession passed through a
wall OF humanity to Trinity church
Here there was a mass Of humanity
filing the hundred foot wide street for
blocks, overGowing on the state house
grounds. Twelve hundred persons
were given seats in the church, but
that was but fraction of the throng,
estimated between twenty and twenty
five thousand.
Bishop Ellison Capers, of the South
Carolina diocese, a brigadier general
in the confederate army, conducted the
services, assisted by Reverend Satter-
lee Witsell, Thomas and Joyner, the
latter also being confederate yeter-
an. Bishop Capers was deeply affected'
The grave was under a huge live oak
in Trinity churchyard. Veterans cast
in the sod. Then literally hundreds OF
floral tributes, many from abroad,
were piled upon and about the grave.
Several men who fought on the union
side four years and are now living, IN
the north, telegraphed instructions to
put vrsaths on General Hampton's.
coffin.
A squad of twenty survivors OF the
original Hampton Legion, bearing the
first flag of that famous command and
the revolutionary war Eutaw flag
which they also used in-the civil war,
had the position OF honor. They held
the flags over the grave during the
ceremony.
General Bradley Johnson, Of Baltl-
more: former Governor Hugh S.
THOMPSON, Of New York, and Con-
gressman Elliott, from Washington
uos among the honorary pallbearers.