Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-04-06
General Wade Hampton o.
South Carolina.
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boy rode like centaur and every
town boy also at whose home there
was a horse. When Hampton arriv-
ed in Newberry the morning Of Sept.
18th he was met at the station by
thousands of mounted Red Shirts.
Mr. Jordan P. Pool had sent his fam
Gus horse ssDan'' the finest saddler
that ever came to Newberry for the
general to ride. In short time the
procession was formed and the caval-
cade went charging and yelling
through the leading streets of the
town, and were met everywhere by
shouts of "Hurrah for Hampton"
from men, women and children. The
ordinary negroes, who were always
fond of horses and admired a fine
rider, stood in open-mouthed Won
der and admiration at the spectacle.
Persons who have never seen a
charge of Red Shirts can form but a
faint idea of the wild enthusiasm and
irresistible force there was in the
charge of thousands of fearless rid
efs in red, going at terrific speed
through the streets of town or city
or along the highways in the coun-
try, making the welkin ring with the
old "Rebel YELL" 1t spread terror
among the negro leaders who, up to
that time had been extremely inso-
lent and overbearing, and curdled
the blood in the veins of the white
scalawags and carpetbaggers.
The redemption of South Caro-
lima was assured when the Red Shirt
riders entered the field. Not by ora
tory nor by argument was the state
redeemed in 1875, but by the dash
and daring of Hampton's cavalry
which was as terrible and as ire
sistible as it had been on fields of
battle; and many VINO followed him
in 1876 had followed him in the
sixties
Wade Hampton was one of four
of that name. His grandfather, who
came from Virginia and settled in
Spartanburg district before the
Revolutionary, was named Wade
Hampton. With most of his family,
he was massacred by the Indians in
ITS, two of the sons escaping by
being away from home when the
massacre took place. One of the
escaping sons was Wade Hampton,
who served in the Revolutionary war
and the War of 1872. He was the
father of Gen. Wade Hampton; and
Gen. Wade Hampton's eldest son
was named Wade.
General Hampton was born in
Charleston March %, 1878. He
graduated at the South Carolina
College. At the outbreak of the war
Between the States he was believed
to be one of the richest Southern
planters, owning the greatest num-
Der of slaves, with immense planta-
tions in South Carolina, Mississippi
and Louisiana. It is said he raised
5000 bales of cotton year. His
home Milwood, burned by Sherman's
army February II, 1865, was four
miles east of Columbia. 1t was an
elegant home and was the seat of a
broad and generous hospitality.
Hampton was fond of fine horses and
of horse-racing-not for gain, but
purely for sport-and was also fond
of hunting 1t was while hunting in
the lower part of the state in 1879
that he met with the accident that
cost him his leg, and came near
costing him his life.
When the War Between the
States broke out Wade Hampton
raised and in part equipped a caval-
ry legion, of which he was elected
commander. In 1852 he became
:brigadier-general of cavalry, in 1864
major-general and in 1865 lieuten-
ant-general and commander-in-chief
of all the cavalry forces in the army
of Northern Virginia. Gen. Hamp-
ton was typical cavalry officer,
though be had not had any military
training until he went into the war.
It is sometimes said derisively that
the cavalry is the insurance arm in