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' * * -A' * ~ " ** . "> V - 1 *#V V 4 . .: * v ' * * * ' -' ftfii Ti *. * ^ ?.*' # - , x. ^ nl*- vf . ^ * * A m ^ ' til mmum M>aifai* BY F. M. TRIMMIER ZWcJ <o Education,Agricultural, Manufacturing and Mechanical Arts. ?2.00 IN ADVANCEVOL XXIII. SP A RVANBUEG, S. C-, T1IUR3D A Y, M ARCII 1, 18G0. NO 5. ** " * - . ^"3 (bmh&dyT1 Spmbmt IR PIII1LI8IIB1) KVKUY THURSDAY MORNING, A T Two Dollars (Specie) in Advance, From the New York World. W.YDE HAMPTON. ATBIBUTE TO T HUE CHI V ALR Y. ViuoiNi January, 1806. There was a gentleman of South Caro Jina, of high social position and ample estate, who, in 18151, came to take Dart in the war in Virginia, at the head of a "Lc4?iou" of Six humired men, infantry. This .fccnly of men, it is said, ho had equipped 3rom his own purse, as lie hud scut to Kngland and purchased the artillery with which he was going to fight. The ' Legion" was composed brave AtuiF, and officered by hard fighting gentlemen?the flower indeed of the great South Carolina race ; a good stock. I believe it first " took the field" in earnest at tho first battle of Manassas us an independent organization; belonging neither to Beauregard's " Aruiy of the Potomac," Jior to Johnston's " Army of Shenandoah." But there it was, as though dropped from the clouds, on the morning of the fiery JilstJuly, 18GI, amid tho coin fields ol Manassas. It made its mark without loss of time?stretching out to Virginia that 1 I- 1 ^ l? t? At /I ? iirm, uravc nanu 01 aoilin Carolina. At 10 o'clook in Ihc morning of this ccntful day, the battle seeuiod lost to the South ernors. Evans was cut to pieces; Hoe shattered and driven back in utter defeat, to the ilonry 1 louse Mills between the victorious enemy, and Hoauiegard's unprotected flank, were interposed only the si* hundred men of the 44 Legion'' already up, and the two thousand six hundred and eleven muskets of Jackson's not yet in position. The 44 Legion" ocoupied the Warrenton road uear the Ktone House, where it met and sustained with stubborn Iront the torrent doshei against it. (leu. Keys, with a whole division, attacked these six hundred men from the direction of lied IIouso For i, and his advance was (breed hack and compelled to take refuge beneath tho bluffs near Ftone Fridge. The column of General Hunter, meanwhile, closed in ou the left of the little baud, enveloped his flunk, and poured a destructive urtillery fire along the liuo. To hold their ground further was impossible, and they slowly fell back; but these precious momeuts had been secured. Jackson was in position; the 44 Legion" retreated, and formed upon his right; the enemy's advance was checked; and when the Southern line advanced in its turn, with wild cheers, piercing the Federal centre, the South Caroliniaus fought shoulder to shoulder beside tho Stonewall Brigade, and saw the forces break in disorder. Wbun the sun sot 0:1 this bloody and victorious field, the 44 Legion" had made a record among the most lnnorable in history. They had done more than their part in the gigantic struggle, and now saw the enomy in full retreat, but their leader did not witness that spectacle. Wade Hampton had been shot down in tins final churgo near tho llcnry llcusc, and borne from the field, cheering on to his men to the lust, with that stubborn hardihood which he derived from his anocstral blood. Such was the first appearuncc upon the great arena of a man who was destined to act a prominent part in the tragic drama of the war, and win for himself a celebrated name. At Manusaas, there in the beginning ol the struggle, as always uftcrward, he was the cool and fearless soldier. It was easily seen by those who watched Hampton "at wurk" that lie lbught lrom a sense of duty, and not from passion, t r to win renown. The war was a gala day, full of attraction and excitement to some ; with him it was hard work?not sought, but accepted. 1 utu certain that ho was iiot actuated l>y n thirst for military rank or renown. From those early days when nil was so gay and brilliant, to the latter years when the conflict had become so desperate and blood)', oppressing every heart, JIampton remained the enine co. l, uncx .cited soldier, lie was foremost in every fight, and everywhere did moic than his .duty, but eventually martial ambition did not move him. Driven to take up arms by bis principles, he fought for his priuci pies, not for fame. It followed him?he .aid not follow it; and to contemplate the and career of such a man is wholesome. Ilis long and arduous career cannot hero .be narrated. A baru reference to some -prominent points is all that can be given. (Ifll IT n mntnn nl' flift D llonmfnn I " ??-("v.., v,. W.V IIVU1|<IVII soon became Brigadier-General Hampton of tho cavalry. Tho horsemen ot tlie Gull' State* serving in Virginia, were pluoed under him, and the brigudc became a portion of Stuart's command It soon made its mark. Here arc some of the landmarks in the stirring record : The bard and stubborn stand made at the Cutoctin mountain when General Leo first invaded Maryland, and where Hampton charged and captured the Federal ar tillery posted in the Suburbs of Frederick City ; the rearguard work us tho Column hastened on, pursued by McUlellan, to Sharps burg ; the stout lighting on the Conlederuro left there; tho ruid around MoClollan'e artuy in October; the obstinate lighting in front of the gap of the Blue Ridge as Lee fell back in November to the line of the Rappahannock ; the expedition in dead of winter to tho Occoijuan ?the oritieal and desperate combat on the 9th of June, 180*5, at Fleetwood llill, or Brandy, where Hampton held the right, and Young of Georgia, tho bravo ol braves, went at the flanking column of the enemy with the sabre, never Qring a shot, and swept thoni from the field; tliospeedy advance, thereafter, with the fighting, fighting, fighting, on the road to tlcttysburg; the close and Litter strugglo when the enemy, with an overpowering foroc of infantry, cavalry and artillery, about the 20th of June, attacked the Southern cavalry near Middleburg, and forced thorn buck, step by step, beyond Upporvillc, where, in the last wild charge, when the Confederates woro nearly broken, Hampton weut in with the sabre at the head ol his men and saved the command from de struction by his " do or die" fighting ; the advance thereafter in Pennsylvania, when the long, hard march was strewed all over with battles like the verses of Ariosto: the stubborn stand at Hanover town, whero Hampton stood like a rock upon the hills above the place, and the never-ceasing rccediug roar of his artillery told us that on the right flank all was well; the march thereafter to Carlisle, and back to Gettysburg ; the grand charge there, sabre to sabre, where Hampton was shot through the body, and nearly cut out of the saddle by a sa'-re blow upon the head, which almost proved fatal; the hard conflicts ul the Wilderness, when General Grunt came over in May, the lighting on the north bank of the l'o, and on the left ul the army at Spottsylvaina Court House; the various campaigns against Sheridan, Kautz, Wilson and ;h later cavalry louddors on the Federal side, when Stuart having fallen, Hampton commau led the whole Virginia cavalry; the hot fights at Trcvilliau'g; at Ucauis; at IJollliolds ; in a hundred p'acos; when in t.liu-v- . spiring hours of the great conflict a species ot fury seemed to possess butli combatants, and Dinwiddie was the arena of u struggle, bitter,' bloody, desperate beyond all ex pressiou ; then the lighting in the Cam ' o o ~ > ' liutis uu t!io oi l grounds of the Kdisto, the high hills of the S uitoo atnl Conguree, which in 18t$4 ami lStio sent bulletins of battle as before ; then the last act of the tragedy w! en .Sherman came ami Hamptons sabre gleamed in the glare of his own house at" Columbia, fire i by himself, anil then was sheathed-?such were so:ue ot tho scenes ami 1 which the lite firm ol this soldier moved, and his s.Yo. i Hashed. The gleaming sabre bad always been seen in tho van. On the Rappahannock, th Po, the Susquehannah, the Shenandoah, the North Ann, tho James, the 11 iwanty ?iu Virginia, Maryland and l'cnmyl? j vaiiia?JIamptcn had fought with the ' stubborn rrourago inherited from his revolutionary sires. Fighting lastly upon the soil of his native State, ho felt no doubt us -Marion anil Sumter <li<l wliou How Jon anil Turleton came ami were met sabre iu sabre. In tlie hot conflicts of lMtio Hampton niot the new enemy us those />r< iur chcvalicrt with their Virginia comrade, I" Light llorso Harry" Lee, had met the old, in 1781. Of this eminent soldier, I will say that seeing him often, in many of those perilous strutia which reveal hard fibre or its absence, I always regarded him as a noble type of courage and manhood?a gentleman and | soldiicr "to the finger-nails." Hut that is j not enough; generalization and euiogy are unprofitable?truth and minute chat-actor ! ization are bettor. One personal anecdote ' of Caesar would be far more valuable than 1 a hundred commonplaces?an 1 that is true of others. It is not a "general idea" 1 am to give?I would paint the portrait, if I can, of the actual man The individuality 'of the great South Caroliuian was very marked You saw at a glance the race from which he sprung, and the traits of heart and brain which he brought to the bar 1 contest. He was "whole in himself and due to none." Neither in physical or mental conformation did ho resemble Stuart, the ideal cavalier, the rou -h ri.l. r | or tho re.st. 'I'o compare him lor an in | slant to the famous Stuart?the latter laughed, sang and revelled in youth and j enjoyment. Hampton smiled oltcner than he laughed, never sang at all that I ever . hoard, and hud the composed demeanor of ; a man ol middle age. Stuart loved bril; iiant colors, gay scenes, and the sparkle of ' luight eyes. Hampton gave little thought ! to these things, and his plain gray coat, worn, dingy and faded, beside the great cavalier's gay '-lighting jacket," shining with gold braid, detined tho whole, diil'erj once. 1 do not say that the dingy coat | covered a stouter heart than tho brilliant jacket?there never lived a more heroic | s n than Stuart?but that in this w..:- shown the individuality uf each. The one?S art?was young, gay, a West Pointer, ; > splendid in his merriment, elm and nl, 'don. The other?Hampton?a civilian preaching middle ago, a planter, not a i dicr by profession?a man who embirl in the arduous struggle with the cooln . ol'the states to an, rather than the ardor : the soldier. It was the planter, sword hand, not the l?. .S. olliecr, that ono saw Hampton?the country gontlonian who t< ' up arms because his native soil was Inv j ed, as the race ol whicli ho came had di in the past. That the plain planter, wi cut military education, bejatnc the gr : soldier, is au evidence that'The strain v ! show." Here is an outline of tlm South Hir..! ia.ii as lie appearcl in Jul}, 1SG2, wt the cavalry were resting after the battloi ' the Chicuhoniiny, an<l lie often came the old shady yard of Uauover Court 1 lot to talk with General Stuart under the tr tie re. What the eye saw in these ' was a personage of tallstaturo and "dial gui died" appearance. Tlic faoc was broi ed by sun and wind, half e vcred by d; side-whiskers, joining a long moustache the same huo?the chin bold, protnim and bare. The eyes were brown, inclin to black, aud very mild and friendly; voice, low, sonorous, and with a certain cent of dignity and couiposurv The Ira of the soldier?striight, vigorous aud e wart, but not too Ltoal fir grace?was 0:l>?"i] in :i Tilfim iii-iv uicl ... ? i * n**V "MVtt Ui W4f u cut, with the cellar turned down; cava boot*, largo and serviceable, with br spurs; u brown kit bat, without star leather; the rest ul the dress plain gr Imagino this stalwart figure with a he: sabre buck c 1 uruu-i 1 tlic Wav , and men ed upon a larirc and power! .t! animal most excellent blo<> t and action, but whe "un-diowy." an 1 a e->:rect idea will bo tainol ol tlonei il Wale Hampton. Ik ing Ironi the clothes tn the limn?what : pressed all who saw him was the attract union ol dignity and sinij lieity in his be ing?:t certain grave and simple court which indicated biilli and breeding. 11 was evidently an honest ..i-nt!.>m.?n ? j --- ! disdain 1 : i| ]iic.V::oo or artilico. Jt \ |>lain that !i thought nothing <.f perso decural.uos or inuin^-y ' ,?.v iid drcaun d of "'producing an i:u. re<-i n i on any one. This was revealed by t! bearing lull ol' pvoud mode<ty?noitl stiff nor insinuating?simple. Aft_r being in his presence fur ten in utos, y ?u saw that he was mar. tor lis work, and not J >r display. 'fhai plain a unassuming manner, wi'hout pretciisi< affectation, or "oSc al" ooolneip, was index to the character o! the individn It i. easy tj tell a gentleman?sonuthi betinys tliat character, a: something b -tr;: the prcte ml. r. Refinement, g > >d broe 1:i 1 a!; I lealtv till*. I a.ill ?i1' t.? ...... u Il l II ? * ! iviivtx ? I UV MVJIV'W) IUI* I'Vl soldi r who has cViT -. rvi'd tr.idcr hilt lie was always doing the ] >nvr m< nibi 1 of his command some kindness. Hi ha was open like his In-art. Many a bra fellow's lata ly was kept from w nit hy hi and a hundred instances ol thi Moral are doubtless recorded in the gratciill nie I orics of the women and children whom fought lor ami fed, too, in those dark da This munificence was no where else reco cd. The left hand knew nut what the rij, did. I tisk a few wor is more, at the ri&k of petition. In reference to the per- titl heari of the man. llis composure upon trying eitsiolis, as in every <1 ty life, nidi ;Vd n .1 poi -e?l and independent character !le i^r. ' yield-. ! to beany re rth, tut Ml tn.l< wa, v< ? - - ?j %?..j *v? ..vii'M , nvi ' in embodied. TliO <?ct: -rul \v:is as courtei to the huuillot private ; ! !: r as to t Cc. 121:11 ni'l in Chief, and you c al l J". . cr 'n him no trace what vcr ?>i" that ;-ir "c Mid -c ;?ni u" an 1 patronage" whi small persons, aim.n^ to be at, >u tiim ? a>l>>pt. It Was >'uc an. 'r~_u ro.ii I .1 - . ? ' " sv oi mo l'ciiuuuiiii. ii't the hollow poll ncss of the proton Jut t.) that tit!.*, whi all BiW in Hampton. Ho <1:1 n t a* I tulo, but lived libs character. In his voi in his Loarin % in ail that he said an 1 <1 the South Cuolin. m betrayed the m in v; is too prou l n't to be rininle, natural. :i uiiu-sutniiii;. I'pon tlii trait ol in:.an r merely, I m seem to dwell too !ou_'. llut it i- n trifle. 1 run trying to delineate a man wnoni wo .^outnerncrs are proud?and t rare grace was his. It reflected elea the charactir uf the individual -the it > pride, the true courtesy, and t!i high 1 i simplicity ol otic who amid all the jurii strife of an < xcitod epoch, would not mi! his serene i.prunimity ol'tcnip r to bo <J turbed; wl. aim.-! to di hi duty to 1 country, not rise above his as >ociatcs; w i was no politer to the higher than to t low, to the powerful than to t!. weak, a who respected more the truth and ceuta beneath the tattered jacket th in tho st and wreath on the braided coat. The | suit ol tl i> kindly feeling toward "men low estate ' was marked. An officer lo associated with him saiJ to iu one day, do not believe there ever wu. a Gene moro beloved by bis whole coinman 1, a he more than returns it. Gen II unpl li-t-u l lVeil I .1. > -? ? * ? --- tu- friendly ami attract ire. You could see th it < lI1(j he was a person of earnest feelings, anil had a i good heart. In camp lie was a pleasant coin- I " pinion, and tlioso who saw hint daily became :,p' most attached to him. His stair was Jevote l i >1- to him 1 remember the r<-gret experienced i ted by these brave gentlemen when Hampton's us- i C<3S ignnieut to the command of all the cavalry i , separated thctn from him. The feeling which I !' they then exhibited left no doubt of tlio titleu(r cordnile between tliu members of the military ' ill family. General Hampton liked to laugh and ;,k talk with thctn nrouud the camp tire; to do < j(i- j 'hem every kindness he could?but that was [ his wc'kiiess toward everybody?and to play j chosa, draughts, or other game-', in the inter 1,1 val3 i>l" iigh'tntr or work. (>nc of his passions | < eat was hunting. This amusement he pursued ' vill upon every occasion?over (lie Spottsylvanin, 1 ami J liic Woods of Diuwiddio, and ou the riv- , era of North Carolina. Ilia success was great, j 1,1 Ducks, patridges, squirrels, turkey and deer ton fell .before his double-barrel, in whatever couu I ol try he pitched his tents. He knew nil the old ; to huntsmen in the regious in which lie tarried, lse delighted t? talk with such upon the noble ' science of venery, anl wis considered by ; t licsc dangerous critics a thorough sportsman. :ty.s 1 'j'l .y logardel him, it is said, as a comrade .til- . n : undistinguished, and scut him, in friendly srii- i recognition i?t hi." merit, presents of vcusion :,nd ..!?; f I. 1.1 -1 ? tJ- ^ ...... nuivil >1 u-> 1'ICUllilil ;viung lllC .. I jdiorcs ot the ltowanty, or in the backwoods uf Dinwiddle. Hampton was holding the right B'H of General Leo's lines there, in supreme coiuitig inuud of nil the Virginia cavalry ; but it was the not as a hunter of ' blue-birds"?<o we used ac_ to call our Northern friends?that they respected hint most. It was ns a deer hunter ; aud 1 have heard '.hat the hard tightiug caviltnl , jor relished, very highly, their goj 1 opinion of en- him in that character. It s singular that a iaa love for hunting should so often characterize jr,. 1 men of elegant scholarship and literary tase. i his great soldier and huntsman was also a a s ; poet ; aud one day Stuart spoke in high com- | or j mend ition of his writings. His prose style ! ay. | was forcible and excellent?in letters, and all ivy i 'hat lie wrote. The admirably written ad, ^ Less to the people of South Carolina, which was recently published, will display the justice V of tliis statement. That paper, like alt that : tlly conic from liiui, was compact, vigorous lucid, ! ob- " written in Knglish," and overewhcrc betray- ; t< , od the scholar uo less than the patriot. 1: will itu- ! ''vc " ,u,i ath .u .uwl octavos have disappeared. j SaoU wus W.vlo Hampton, the man?a gen- | tlcuinn of refinement, purity, and elevation iu J every lihreolhis being. It vrm iinpos iblo to i!-v . int igiue anything coarse or profane in the ac- 1 ere ' lion or uticrauce of the mail. An oath never .jlu soiled li:s lips. "I)j bring up that artillory 1" I or -uino equivalent exclamation, vas his near . est approach to irritation even. Such was the ,);l- j Bcprctae control which this tnan. ot character , ' if , tJ or. und ve->; ii. u, hud Over his | r>- ; pi"-- ms. For under that simplicity and kindh it ' Culll"-'sy wa* the largely-raided nature of | one ready to go t < the death 'vm.ii honor called. 1 | In a single word, it was a powerful orgnnizaj lion uudcr complete control, which the present in I writer > -etned to veeogni/o in Wado Hampton. ir,l l.'nder that meekness an I liguity which made nj linn conspicuous among the tirst gentlemen of hi' epoch, was the stubborn spirit of the bora jn- oluier. a!' i Little space is I f: io speak of him in nis mili itary character. 1 preferred to dwell upon ",-t 1 li imptou, the man, as ho appeared to mc?for Ly.s | Hampton the (iencral. will find tuany j.istorians ! j , Sjm.' traits of the soldier, however, m:i3v "<Jt ! .; 1- mittcd?this character is too eminent to he draw.; only in profile. <>u the fichl, II;i:np, ls ton was note I for his coolness. This never | tt-' kit him. I: might almost be called repose, j jv aj perfect was it. lie was never an excitable vj" man, a:: 1 as doubt an I danger presse 1 heavier, i his equanimity seemed to in ivase. You could ; - th..1 iiis was truly a stubborn spirit. 1 do I ' 1 ' u a tnitili that any body who knew hi in could | 'l' even imagine Wad' tl:iiii|>.on "flurried.'' Ilis I i nerve was ma le of invincible elutr. and his en j t.|j tire absence of all exc lability ou the field was f ( spoken of bv his enemies as a fault. It was .-anl that his coolness amounted to a defect in a env ?lry leader; that lie waute 1 the dash, rush, 1 . and impetus which this branch of the service ho U mauds, if there was any general truth iu | 11.| | this criticism, there was in particular iustuu j j \\ iv as 'It I liio ircncliant weapons of thu an if- .''ieht knights. This spirit of the thorough n (wvali- v in 1! impton is worth dwelling on no- I'mlor the hraol of tho Major-Honor*! was the ' If- brave >ul of the feerless soMier, the ''fi^ht! in,; man." It was not a roeiit in htm or in srv ' '!,era that thrv pave u we?'?S, bv itui -, elegance, nil (lie comforts, conveniences and serene enjoyments of life, to live hard and fight lianl; (o endure heat, cold, hunger, thirst, exhaustion, and pain, without a murmer; but it was n merit in this brave soldier and gentleman that he did more than his duty, met breast to breast, in single combat, the boat swordsmen of the Federal army, counting his life no more than a private soldier's; and seemed to ask nothing more than to pour out bis heart's blood for the cause in which he fought. Thle perBonel heroism?and Hampton had ittoa grand i-xteui--euiraetstlio admiration of troops. But there is somothing better, or more useful at least?the power of brain aud force of character which won the confidence of the Common ucr-iu-ciiiei is cmicu liobert li. l.ee, it is something to ! iVO secured his high regard and eon* fide nee. Hampton !iad won the heart of Lee, and by that '-nublost (Ionian of Lhetn all" his groat character and eminent services were fully recoguized. Tlicsc men seemed to understand each oilier, and to be inspired by the same sentiment?u love of ilieir native land whioh never failed, and a willingness to spend and be spent to the lust drop of their blood in the oanse which they had espoused. During General Stuart's lite, Hampton was second in command of the Virginia I'uralry; but when that great cavalier fell, betook charge o'f the whole as ranking o'Jiccr. Mis first blow was that resolute night attack on Shccidan's forco at Me-, ehauicsvillc, when the enemy were driven in (he darkness from their camps, and sprung to horse ouly in time to avoid the sweeping sabres of the Southerners?giving up from that moment nil further attempt to enter Richmond. ucii tunic me lung, naru, ucspcraic nguiing of (ho whole vonr lbf>4, aud the spring of 1865. At Trcvillian s, Sheridan was driven book, and Charlottesville saved; on the Weldon Railroad the enemy's cavalry, under Kanti and Wilson, was nearly cut to pieces, and broke in disorder, leaving on the roads their wngons, cannons, ambulances, their doad men and horses; near Hcl'.tichl the Federal column sent to destroy the railroad was encountered, stubbornly opposed an 1 driven back before they oould burn the bridges at Hicksford; at Burgess' Mill, near l'ctcr-hurg where General Grant uiade his first great blow with two corps ot infantry, at the Southsido railroad, Hampton met them in front aud tl ink. fought them all an October day nearly, lost his brave son Preston, dead from a bullet on the field, but, in conjunction with Mahotte, thai hardy fighter, sent the enemy in haste back to tlicir works, thus saving for the time the great war artery of the Southern army. Thenceforward, until lie was sent to South Carolina, Hampton held tho right of Lee, in the wuoda of Dinwiddie, guarding with his cavalry cordon the line of tiio llowauty, and defying nil comers. Stout, hardy, composed, smiling, ready to mcot any attack, in those last days of the strange year ItH'-i. he ueetued to my eyas the hcau ideal ofas<luler. lhe man appeared to be as firm as a rock, as immovably rooted as one of the gigantic live-oaks of his native country. When 1 asked him one day if he expected to l>c attacked aoon, ho laughed and said : "No; the enemy's cav%lry urc afraid to show their noses beyond their infantry." Ner d:d the Federal cavalry ever achieve any results in that region until the ten or fifteen thousand ctack cavalry of Gee. Sheridan came to tide over the two thousand men, on starved and broken-1' wn horses of Gen. L'iti Lee, in April. 1805. From Virginia, in the dark winter of 1SG4, Hampton was sent to oppoae with his cavalry the udvauce of G?n. Sherman, and the world knows how desperately he fought there ou Lis natah zeehtrn. More than ever or lore, it was sabre to sabre, aud Hampton was siill in front. When the enemy pressed on to Columbia, he set his fine house there on lire v it la his own hands, and fell back, fighting from 11reel to street, and so continued fighting i: i.::! t!;.- thunderbolt fell in South Carolina it had lnllen in Virginia, at Appomattox, nil the struggle ended. The sword that llaiupt m sheathed that day was one which no evil ?t had faith, cruelty or dishonor had ever tainted, h was the blade of a brave and irrepr reliable chevalier?of a man who, throughout the tuost desperate and embittered conflict of all history, had kept his ancestral name from every blot, and had proved himself upon a hundred battle ticlds the worthy son of the "mighty tucn of old." Such, in rough outline, was this brave and kindly soldier and gentleman, as he dashed before our eyes in Virginia ' working his work.-' Seeing him often?in camp, on the field, in bright days, and wheu the sky was darkest?the present writer looked upotn him as a noble spirit, the truthful representative of a great and vigorous race. Brave, just, kiudly, courteous, with the tenderness of & woman under that grave, nt times almost cold exterior ; devoted to the principles for which he fought and won! 1 have died : loving his native land with a love ' passing the lovo of a wounu proud, but never haughty ; not so much " condesccn Jing" to men to low estate, as giving them -if they were soldiers?the warm rigid hand of fellowship; merciful, simple minted ; foremost in the fight, but nowhere to be seen in the ante chamber of living man ; with a hand shut tight upon the sword hilt, but open as day to "melting oharity colliding his life as nothing at the call of honor: lighting with stubborn resolution for the faith that was in him; never cast down, never wavering, never giving back until the torrent '-in- nun away, urn ngnting (0 uic last with ihat hcioic courage burn in hid blood, for the independence of the country. Such was Wade Hampton, of South Caroliua. There are those, perhaps, who will malign him in these dark da\<. when no sun shines. But the light is yonder beyond Uio clou.I and storm, some day it will shine out, and a million of rushlights will not be ample to extinguish it. There ore others who will call l.im traitor, aud look, perhaps, with pity and contempt upon this p&gu which claims for him a noble place among the illustrious figure* shining all along the coasts of history, like beacon lights above the storm. Traitor lot it be ?one hundred years ago there Were many in the South, and they fought over the name ground. Had tho old Revolution failed, those men would have lived forever, aa 11 impton and his associates in the recent con* diet will. "Surrender," written at the end of this g<cut history, cannot mar its glory?fail* in o cannot blot out its splendor. Let the storm flutter obloquy and insult heat?it will not be long At least one fellow traitor livee to share that obloquy, and take his portion of that *'pitil?j3 ptorm"?a poor writer, who is protid to have louche 1 the brave hand of Hampton 40/j oes. Hampton w is sufficiently headlong when i I saw liiin?was one of the iiiOtl thoroughly ; l.v -ncei commanders imaginable, and ecrt " I Mini* seemed to have a natural turn for going ol in fr nt of hid column with the drawn sabre, his ' What the French call is not, howevor, t!ie j.?v gicatest merit in a soldier. behind the strong arm is the very brain. Cool an I collected resI ,l' 1 idnti at, a comprehensive surrey oft ho whole ! field, an l the most excellent dispositions for II ' att.i ;k or defence such were the supreme mer. fcr its f this great soldier. I could never divest ^ | n vself <>f tho idea that, as a corps commander ! of infantry, ho would h ire figured am ng tho I m ist eminent names of history. Willi an unlio couid ni brain, a r<> ;. J / us clear as a ray lie ?>l the sun: invincible before danger; never liar iul ri"l, anxious or do'pond ni; content to wait; ,, ! >> wary even to l>c surprised; looking to great i tria'.s i f strength, an 1 : > g TitTal results?the 1 11 " in.in possessing the traits of cliaraetor was ; I'1' better tilted, I always thought, for the command I ol ol troops of all arm?infantry, cavalry nut ii . artillery?than far one arm nlono. Hut with ' ,. p : hat arm wliioh lie commanded?cavalry?what I j splendid i v suits did he a -lucre I In how many I'Wtiivu^ -? i? ? ? c m-? ??!> Il^lliv acvu iu I1U111 ? nd I of iho Southern horsemen, bidding them "come ;ou <>n." not ' go on." I!.- was not only the com>ry in.in.lor, but the ir too. Thousands v.-ill | '? remember how tiis stalwart form towercil in ' v.vi at Frederick t'ity, at Fpporvillo, at i L*^ (!ctiy burg, at Trcvillian's, and in a hundred I , other f.gbti. Nothing more superb could bo iVc imagine 1 th .:i Hampton ut .-Mich moments. < ! m; There w .> 11 > tinny in the in in?but determine i ' . nl n oluiion. No doubt of the result apparent- j '' no looking for an aveuue of retreat. "Subro i to Sahro!" might have been taken as the motto | ! 'le I of his binnei. In the "hoady fight' lie was J ys. everywhere seen, amid the clouds of sinoke, I rJ. the crashing shell, and the whistling balls, { ,y . fight ng like a privto soldier, his long tword a * I doing b ird work in (lie uieloo, and carving its