| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Book Review

Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman. By Walter Brian Cisco. (Washington: Brassey's, 2004. xiv, 401 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-57488-626-6.)

Wade Hampton III was a significant figure in nineteenth-century American history, though he would never be placed in the first rank. Scion of an extremely wealthy South Carolina planting family that owned vast plantations in Louisiana and Mississippi as well as in South Carolina, Hampton in 1860 was one of the largest slave owners in the South. When the Civil War broke out, he raised his own legion and rose to command the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, reaching the rank of lieutenant general. By all accounts he numbered among the handful of talented senior Confederate general officers without previous military experience. In the postwar years he became a major political figure in his state. Elected governor in 1876, he directed the Democratic return to power that signaled the end of Reconstruction, and he then led the Conservative or Redeemer regime. A grateful state sent him to the U.S. Senate where he served until 1890, when Benjamin Tillman's insurgency toppled him. He died in 1902.

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