Talk:Wade Hampton III

message: I removed the 'legendary' tag re: N.B. Forrest and recast the sentence, insofar as it seems more of a judgment than encyclopedic fact, and the article is about Hampton, not Forrest.  131.24.119.11 17:42, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NBF 

message: It says he was in the State General Assembly and then a Senator.  Should it be clarified that he was a State Senator?
:yes.Parkwells (talk) 20:34, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Life and Career 

message: I have trouble with the statement in the "Postbellum Career" section that Hampton was "South Carolina Grand Dragon" of the Ku Klux Klan. The source for that assertion was written more or less anonymously, fifty years after the fact, by someone claiming to be from Georgia, not South Carolina. Other sources I have read state that Hampton gave tacit support to the organization, particularly in the form of raising money for legal defense funds, but that he had no active involvement within the organization. See Andrew, Rod Jr., Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior to Southern Redeemer, University of North Carolina Press, 2008, pages 343-4. I think the remark about KKK involvement should be clarified, or a better source found for the "Grand Dragon" assertion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.6.9.31 (talk) 05:45, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Good suggestion of current RS - will add this. If editors have other info from other sources, they can add with cites.Parkwells (talk) 20:36, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  KKK 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article mentions that Hampton was not compensated for his slaves after the war.  It seems like this should go without saying, but if it is mentioned (and I'm not sure that it needs to be) it should be pointed out that no state had ever compensated slaveowners when slavery was outlawed.  An editor took this info out claiming that Northern states like New York had compensated slaveholders -- this is not true.  The only compensation ever authorized was in DC during the war.  Tom (North Shoreman) (talk) 23:00, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compensated emancipation 

message: See Donald Livingston about the Abbeville Institute and this review.. Doug Weller talk 11:28, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cisco not an RS 

message: This article is filled with inaccuracies, myths, folklore and outright lies, attempting to make a racist traitor seem heroic. It is an embarrassment to Wikipedia. Fielding99 (talk) 03:00, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Much of this article, as edited in 2005 by user:Hlj, (AKA Hal Jespersen), is a  is a slight rewording of an unsigned article which now appears at http://www.knowsouthernhistory.net/Biographies/Wade_Hampton/ . It appears that that article was originally written for the "Buford’s Boys!" website. The website owner and author of all articles there is J. David Petruzzi. Petruzzi has published several books of Civil War history, and even his self-published website probably qualifies as a reliable source. Even so, the source article looks more like a piece written for school children rather than a critical biography. Maybe someone can find a better biography and rewrite our article based on that, but it'd be a fair bit of work. Mobi Ditch (talk) 19:05, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nonsense