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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

Here's how it looks now. I made minor changes and reworked a bit of the ordering, but it's otherwise intact. Nice job.


Lt. Gen. Wade Hampton III (b. 1818, d. 1902). Hampton was born in 1818, the son and grandson of cavalrymen. He graduated from South Carolina College in 1836, and spent the next twenty-five years managing the family’s estates and becoming widely recognized as the richest man in the South. He opposed secession and the extension of slavery, but on the outbreak of war he volunteered as a private in the South Carolina militia and was quickly commissioned as Colonel. Hampton raised and armed at his own expense the “Hampton Legion,” a combined-arms unit comprising six companies of infantry, four companies of cavalry, and one battery of artillery. During First Manassas the Legion deployed at a decisive moment, buying time for the “Stonewall Brigade” to reach the field and make its immortal stand. At Manassas, Hampton – who already bore scars from hunting bears with only a knife – received the first of what by war’s end would be six wounds when a ball grazed his scalp; he had it bandaged and continued in command. Commanding a brigade during the Peninsula campaign, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in late May 1862. At Seven Pines, Hampton was shot in the foot, and a surgeon removed the ball while Hampton sat on his horse – but the surgeon himself was then shot in the arm and had to have it amputated. When Gen. Robert E. Lee organized It was reorganized rather than organized, right? the army, Hampton was assigned to command the 1st Brigade of Cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia. As second in command in Gen. J.E.B. Stuart’s cavalry division, he had a part in practically all of Stuart’s major movements – the Maryland campaign, the Chambersburg raid, the march around the flank of the Union army before Gettysburg. Hampton took four wounds at Gettysburg: he was grazed by a ball in the chest and later in two skirmishes received saber wounds to the head, but continued in command until wounded in the hip by shrapnel. At this point, he and Gen. John B. Hood were evacuated in the same carriage, with Hood unable to lie down and Hampton unable to sit up. Hampton was promoted Major General in early August 1863, and after Stuart's death on May 12, 1864 was put in command of the Cavalry Corps, though not until August I added this last clause based on Wikipedia. Was the Cavalry Corps without an official commander during that time?. During Hampton’s command of the cavalry the South was on the defensive, and was desperately short of horses. These considerations led Hampton to the employment of the cavalry as dragoons, fighting mostly dismounted. At Hawes' Shop (May 28) and Burgess Mill (Oct. 27) he endeavored, in the main successfully, to stay the Federal advance. Trevilian Station (June 11 and 12), Sappony Church (June 27), Reams' Station (Aug. 25), and many unnamed skirmishes were fought with even greater success to keep open Richmond’s lines of communication with the west and south. In January 1865 Hampton took part of his command out of Virginia in search of fresh horses. He did not return to Virginia, but instead was ordered to cover the retreat of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army. Hampton, who had been promoted Lieutenant General on Feb. 14, 1865, surrendered to Union Gen. William T. Sherman along with Johnston’s army, and then returned to his native South Carolina. After the war Hampton was twice elected governor of South Carolina and became known as the "Savior of South Carolina." In 1878 he broke his leg while hunting when he was thrown from a mule. Infection set in and the leg was amputated, and replaced by a false leg made of cork. Hampton also served two terms in the U.S. Senate from 1879-1891. He died of heart disease in 1902, at Columbia, S.C.

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ORIGINAL: jkBluesman

Hampton did not only go for horses, but for cattle as well. In September 1864 he captured 2 486 cattle on the "Beefsteak raid" and brought the animals together with 300 prisoners back to the Petersburg trenches.

Gil,
I edited third from last sentence, removed "was" from "was made of cork"
It was reorganized rather than organized, right? The sense I was going for was Lee organized the ANV, should have said that rather than "the army".
I added this last clause based on Wikipedia. Was the Cavalry Corps without an official commander during that time?. I'm not sure, I know Hampton was Stuart's XO, perhaps he filled in and it was made official in August?