Research Catalog

Wade Hampton : Confederate warrior to southern redeemer

Title: Wade Hampton : Confederate warrior to southern redeemer / Rod Andrew, Jr.
Author: Andrew, Rod, Jr.
Publication: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008], ©2008.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	E467.1.H19 A64 2008	Off-site

Holdings

Details

Description

xviii, 616 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 25 cm.

Summary

"Few Southern elites gave more to the Confederate cause or suffered more in its defeat than General Wade Hampton III of South Carolina. One of the South's most illustrious military leaders, Hampton was for a time the commander of all Lee's cavalry and at the end of the war was the highest-ranking Confederate cavalry officer. Yet for all Hampton's military victories, he also suffered devastating losses. He lost a beloved son and a brother, his own home as well as his grandfather's ancestral mansion, and his vast personal fortune. He failed to deter Sherman's legions from capturing his hometown of Columbia and was blamed for the inferno that destroyed it. Previous studies of Hampton have leaned toward hero worship or taken a political approach that considered his personal history irrelevant. Rod Andrew's critical biography demonstrates that Hampton's life is essential to understanding his influence beyond the battlefield and his obsession with vindication for the South." "Andrew's analysis of Hampton sheds light on his critical role during Reconstruction as a conservative white leader, governor, U.S. senator, and Redeemer; his heroic image in the minds of white Southerners; and his positions and apparent contradictions on race and the role of African Americans in the New South. Andrew also shows that Hampton's tragic past explains how he emerged in his own day as a larger-than-life symbol - of national reconciliation as well as Southern defiance."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Civil War America

Uniform Title

Civil War America.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 577-599) and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Paternalism -- 1. The Patriarchs -- 2. The Young Knight -- 3. A Father as well as a Brother -- Pt. II. Chivalry -- 4. The Appian Way of the Constitution -- 5. Manassas: Baptism of Fire -- 6. Long Winter on the Occoquan -- 7. If We Could Kill All the Yankees, I Could Come Home: The Peninsula, 1862 -- 8. Riding with Stuart -- 9. Raiding on the Rappahannock -- 10. Winter of Discontent -- 11. Brandy Station to Gettysburg -- 12. The Home Front -- 13. Division Commander: November 1863-May 1864 -- 14. If We Are Successful Now: May 1864 -- 15. The Test at Trevilian -- 16. Hampton's Cavalry: June-July 1864 -- 17. The Cavalry Always Fight Well Now: July-September 1864 -- 18. My Son, My Son! -- 19. Disaster -- Pt. III. Vindication -- 20. The Search for Vindication -- 21. Consider the Position in Which I Find Myself -- 22. His Solemn Obligation: 1865-1866 -- 23. Hampton, Sherman, and the Yankees -- 24. Conquered Provinces -- 25. Another Battle and a Retreat -- 26. Hampton and the Ku Klux -- 27. Hurrah for Hampton -- 28. Interregnum -- 29. Victory -- 30. Promises to Keep -- 31. And Now Would You Turn Your Backs on Them?: 1878 -- 32. You Cannot Expect Us to Apologize -- 33. Senator Hampton -- 34. Hampton versus Tillman -- 35. Time Makes All Things Even -- 36. God Bless Them All -- Appendix. The Fable of Hampton, "Major S," and a Union Private.

ISBN

9780807831939 (cloth : alk. paper)
080783193X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007045836
40015411399

OCLC

ocn180989593
180989593
SCSB-5409482

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries