Wade Hampton jackon Stuart's corps

Stuart's corps

The stories behind never-before-seen photographs

photographs

Blackford account "The road was lined on each side by an ill-kept hedge grown-up high

are pieced together to reveal the human element of war

Wade Hampton jackon Stuart's corpsBy sculptor Francis Barnum 2001 Event Piece Pewter Limited edition S L #5943 Born 1818, Charleston, South Carolina, this University of South Carolina graduate and inherited plantation owner was a large, dignified man with courteous manners. He joined the Confederacy in 1861, organizing Hampton's Legion of South Carolina. In 1862, he was made Brigadier General of Cavalry and placed in command of a brigade in J. E. B. Stuart's corps. At Gettysburg, his