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    Carolina planter Wade Hampton III. Initially composed of infantry, cavalry, and artillery battalions, elements of Hampton's Legion participated in virtually...
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    and expected to finance military units. Hampton organized and partially funded the unit known as "Hampton's Legion," which consisted of six companies of...
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    Col. Wade Hampton and his Hampton's Legion, and Col. J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry along with a contingent of 6-pounder guns. The Hampton Legion, some 600 men...
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    Virginia, serving in Hampton's Legion, attaining the rank of captain on June 12, 1861, and then Major on July 21, 1861. When the legion's cavalry battalion...
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    South Carolina Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment made from the Hampton's Legion cavalry Battalion. The 2nd served for most of the American Civil War...
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  • the guide suddenly remembered that he had never really belonged to Hampton's Legion; that the story grew out of a little romance of his, and had grown...
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  • Company, Heavy Artillery (Gist Guard) Mathewes' Company, Heavy Artillery Hampton's Legion Infantry Battalion Cavalry Battalion (2nd Cavalry Regiment) Edgefield...
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  • service as part of Hampton’s Legion. It later became Company I, 2nd South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, when the cavalry battalion of the Legion was reorganized...
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    Texas, and 18th Georgia Regiments. After the Battle of Seven Pines, Hampton's Legion from South Carolina joined the brigade. After the general reorganization...
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    of Fort Sumter in April 1861. When war began, Pettigrew joined the Hampton Legion as a private. In July 1861, he was elected colonel of the 22nd North...
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    weeks after his marriage to enlist in the forces of Wade Hampton, known as "Hampton's Legion". A week later Ashley follows him. In his absence Melanie...
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    Distinguished in Wade Hampton III's brigade in Maryland campaign. Cobb's Legion, colonel, November 1, 1862. Commanded Hampton's old division for part...
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  • Hugh Judson Kilpatrick 2021 United States Hampton's Legion Christopher Forbes Action, War. Wade Hampton III 2022 United States Civil War Saint Ashley...
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    of the infantry battalion in the Legion and was promoted to colonel when given control of a regiment. Hampton's Legion came under the command of General...
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    the 1st Texas, 4th Texas, 5th Texas, and 18th Georgia Regiments and Hampton's Legion. Before the 7:00 pm attack, Confederate army commander Robert E. Lee...
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    David R. Jones, Bonham, and Louis Wigfall, as well as Hampton's Legion commanded by Wade Hampton III. On January 10, 1862, Longstreet traveled under orders...
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    Noteworthy were Stuart's 1st Virginia Cavalry, the 2nd Virginia Cavalry and Hampton's Legion from South Carolina. Recommendations and endorsements from Generals...
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    the division of Brig. Gen. William H. C. Whiting and Hampton's Legion, under Colonel Wade Hampton, to the task. On May 7, Franklin posted Brig. Gen. John...
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  • as well as an artillery battery. Hampton's Legion, raised in the summer of 1861 by Wade Hampton III Hilliard's Legion, organized in Montgomery, Alabama...
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    American Legion Hut is a historic clubhouse located at Hampton, Hampton County, South Carolina. It was built in 1933, and is a one-story, T-shaped cypress...
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    Hampton was wounded. On July 21, 1861, Conner was appointed major of Hampton's Legion. After the Battle of Seven Pines during the Peninsula Campaign, he...
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    the division of Brig. Gen. William H. C. Whiting and Hampton's Legion, under Col. Wade Hampton, to the task. On May 7, Franklin posted Brig. Gen. John...
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  • South Carolina: Col Asbury Coward 6th South Carolina: Col John Bratton Hampton's Legion: Col Martin W. Gary Palmetto Sharpshooters: Col Joseph Walker Davis'...
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    the 1st Texas, 4th Texas, 5th Texas, and 18th Georgia Regiments and Hampton's Legion. During the Seven Days Battles, the brigade's losses were 92 killed...
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  • Maryland campaign, Wade Hampton's brigade crossed the Potomac in order to retake a battery captured by the Union. The Legion operated as rear guard and...
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    breeder. Wade Hampton III (1818–1902) was the first son of Wade Hampton II. He served in the Confederate Army by leading Hampton's Legion rising to the...
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    Army, and in May he was promoted to first lieutenant and joined Wade Hampton's Legion. Logan was assigned to Company A of the unit, which had been formed...
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    cavalry and Greenville home guards. After returning from service in Hampton's Legion during the Civil War, Lanneau began his textile career as the bookkeeper...
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    of major in the Confederate Army. Lee commanded a light battery in Hampton's Legion in Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army later in 1861. He was promoted to...
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    depot in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in June 1864 against an attack by Hampton's Legion. On March 13, 1865, Abercrombie was brevetted a brigadier general in...
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