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AN HONORABLF. STATESMAN IS LEAL Concluded from 1st page. lery. He commanded this organi zation with conspicuous gallantry a Bull Run, where he received a woun, in the head. Such a command wa hardly fitted for good service. Th different arms of the ~service wer separated, "and each became th progenitor of a famous body of il kind." It was corps elite. Of il original members two became liet tenant generals-Hampton and Sto phen D. Lee; one a major genera Butler, and three brigadier genera -Conner, Gary and Logan. At Seve ,Pines Hampton was again wounde in the foot, his troops distinguisl ing themselves. On July 28, 186 Hampton was made a brigadier ger eral of cavalry and his command wE known as the Hampton Legion. ] was composed of South Carolinian North Carolinians and Virginian At its head Hampton rode in Stuart famous raid in August, 1862, roun Pope's flank and rear. He mad the Federal general date his correi pondenpe from "Headquarters in ti Saddle." Gen. Hampton was a ways successful in detached servici His work was dashing in Marylan and Pennsylvania campaigns of 1861 63, and full of incidents. The stor of Hampton's meeting with Col. Mi Clure of Chambersburg is one of t best of the campaign in that sectioi At Gettysburg Gen. Hampton wi thrice wounded in the momentox struggle. About half the men wei wounded in this battle. In JuE 1863 at Brandy Station Gen. Haml ton's younger brother, Lt. Col. Fray Hampton, was killed. Gen. Buth lost his leg here also. "On another part of the field, says the historian, "Gen. Hampto was that day performing brilliar service in many a charge. One< these, a mounted charge against - Federal brigade was said to ha, been the most hotly contested au * magnificent horse encounter of ti war, but Hampton's star lighted tt path and his saber- cleft the way I victory. As the general dashed i the head of his command to lea them on this occasion his eyes 'sna] ping fire,' as the men used to sa; he threw dff his overcoat to leave h sword arm free and flung it to h son, Preston, acting orderly, a mei boy, who was afterwards killed Burgess' Mill," who threw it awa saying he didn't come to tarry coa but to fight. At Gettysburg Get Patent Medicine. There is no secret aboui Vinol-it is nothing but elements wlh in Cod-Livex in a delica with a little added-that' no bad taste, wholesome1 a remnarkal power. Everything that is in Vinc each package. We know V: tired, pale and weak women persons who are run down, satisfied that Vinol is the besi sold, and in many cases we hi the wonderful results it bringi antee Vinol and refund the p atisfied. W.E. PEIHAM Hampton was severely injured, y though after receiving this wound t he, in hand-to hand conflet cleft the r skull of his adversary with his saber. 8 In August 1863 he was made a i major general and then soon folluwed t the magnificent campaign of Vir- a ginia, where Hampton woN.a his fame t as a general. Hampton broke up t i Federal plans with the move to Tre- f 5 villians Station, and in 23 days cap- t e tured 3,000 prisoners and much wvar i e material with a loss of only 719 men. i e In August 1864 Hampton was made E . commander of Lee's cavalry with the|i S rank of lieutenant general. In Sep- i 1 tember he struck the rear of the I e Federal army at City Point and E , brought away 400 prisoners and t Is about 2,500 beeves. n It is impossible here to tell of the d many brilliant battles conducted by ' Gen. Hampton. The story would 1 , fill volumes. He concluded his ser- i vice before the war ended by taking i s charge of Johnson's cavalry and did ] t fine service in harrassing and retard , ing Sherman's army. -. Gen. Lee's famous order commend s iLg Gen. Hamptou's cavalry, issued d on Feb. 28, 1863, concluded with e this paragraph: "In announcing these achieve e ments, the comwanding general takes I special pleasure in adverting to the - promptness of the officers in st.iking I d a successful blow whenever the op- I . portunity offered, and the enduranceI Y and gallantry with which the men 1 have always supported their com e maDders. These deeds give as - surance of vigilance, activity and for Is titude and of the performance of still s more brilliant actions in the coming e campaign. R. E. Lee, "General." Y Historian Wells in his volume re k lating to Gen. Hampton gives a i r striking instance of his personal bra j very and mental acumen. He says:| "Early on the morning of March 11, n 1865, Johnson's army was crossing t the Cape Fear river at Fayetteville,j f North Carolina. The infantry, ar-| a tillery and wagon trains ha:l nearly| e affected a crossing, while the cavalryj d were across. Sherman's forces in e parallel columns were pressing up.j e Gen. Hampton was near the hotel inj o the town-when one of his best scouts, o Hugh Scott by name, galloped up| d and told him that the enemy were - close by in the parallel streets, a ', company of them having come j s through a byroad that had not beenji s picketed, and that more were behindj e them. The situation was critical.| t If the enemy succeeded in wedging| y ing in between the retreating army| s and its cavalry, the rear guard, it< . would entail disaster. The cavalry the curativeI ich are found -Oil, dissolved| te table wine organic iron s all; no grease,| , a simple and nedicine with >1e cur ative 1 is plainly printed on the label of' iol is a splendid preparation for and children, old people and all nervous or losing filesh. We arei tonio reconstructor we have ever t ~ve been able to see for ourselves Sabout. Remember that we guar-- c urchase money to all who are not & SON,mDrists1$ iould thus be cut off from covering the he retreat and the bridge across the paig iver which it was assential to burn ferr ,fter the crossing completed, if left he I a tact, would afford the Federals est he opportunity of swift pursuit. Not coni imoment was to be lost. The cav- of I iry leader must be able to both occa hink and act with the rapidity of a Sok lash of lightning, and that Hamp- stru on did on this occasion. He real Dav zed that an onoce of prevention is Y vorth a pound of cure in war as well the Ls in disease and that one man's ser- berl ices in the nick of time may be more ton au ble than that of a thousand a and ew minnts later. So, calling to the hav cout and two members of his staff the o follow him and picking up three frai )rivates from Company K, Fourth Stai 5. C. C. (Charleston Light Dragoons) regi * * and also one man said to peci >e from Wheeler's command * * he general dashed around the cor ier and gave the order. 'Charge.' will Jis seven followers-there were no exe( )thers in the charge-obeyed with Goi ilacrity and all, the general leading, the lung themselves upon the Federals, who were drawn up in the street. rhese fired a volley with their car. C >ines ,ut by that time the Confed- S )rates had struck them and confused pro] )y t' e suddenness of the attack, the tive ierce assaults and the powder smoke pap :hey did not realize the small mum- offic )er of their assailants. So they tried to il o wheel about to run, but among pro] hem were pistol balls at close quar. any bers, and the back and thrust of con 3abres. Less than a hundred yards I lown the street was a turn at right ent angles to the left into the byroad by which they had entered the town To and by which they were endeavoring -' aow to escape. Here they became rep] jammed together in confusion, all )rgauization lost and their pursuers :ut and thrust like devils incarnate, ( is the fugitives probably thought . Eleven Federals were killed and 12 dat aptured and the rest, many of them retE ounded, fled in wild panic carrying ma' >nsternation to their friends with rowl areited tales of hundreds of men in pur buckram, as the best will do in such aircumstances." The only Confeder ite casualty was the killing of a fine mare. Thus was the crossing of the To river secured to the Confederates. I Eampton had grasped the situation ad solved the- problem. -int After the close of the war Gen- "Al Eampton resumed his cotton plant- ern ng operations but was not generally ran mecessful. He spent a good por :ion of his time looking after hisso Iississippi plantation and this gave to ise to the charge, made by his politi- den ~a1 enemies some years later, that he sou was an alien. Just here it may be rest voll to tell how it was that Gen. bef< Eampton came to head the move- stro nent that led to the redemption of cros 3outh Carolina from Radical rule. neg In December, 187h, he came to und he dis-inguished South Corolinians inst who was at the head of the white and cipiant organizaition. He was then the >nl his way to Mississippi. He asked the ht was going to be done and asked the ipeciically could the people of the out state be aroused to do anything. A h Efe was a:aswered 'yes,' that they had et, letermined to m-ake a straightout the ight and win or die He said, "That ief a the only hope for the State." He as v vas thben asked: "If we nominate ou will you lead the fight ?" "On C hat platform," he answered, "I will - ake the fight to a flnisb, not for the tice but for the principle." Gen. lampton went on to his Mississippi lartation and in the meantime Col. {oyt's paper in the up country and few others began to help the white eaders. The convention was called 'or May, but Chamberlain's Fusion- 4 sts were so strong that all that could . e done was to adjourn the conven ion without action. The Fusionists ontnded in that convention that {ampton was a Fusionist. Gen. {ampton camne back to South Caro inain June and to his home in the andills. Whben he got back he vas in bad health and it looked as if here was but little bope for the ;ate. He was sent to the moun in9 to get his health back again and the convention was postponed ntril August. Early in July he went o alballa and off in the mountains. 1 Early in August a letter was sent 3 im urging him to come to Colum ia and be present in person at the Hewas off in the mountains hunt noht he got he.re the night before he couvenitioni and the next day was . n t he floor. After a hard fight his r omiaion was won and then men ho bad been fighting the white I e.aders all day came over that night rhile enthusiasm prevailed in Co~ ami.Gn apo eundt ,a non Hamnion ratnrned to - to 12 m., Mr. Manning, private sec - retary to the governor, presented ,t himself at the executive offlice and - was politely met by Mr. Babbett, of e whom he requested the surrender of s the governor's office in the name of 1I Gov. Hampton. Mr. Babbett replied a that he was ordered by Gov. Cha1 -|berlain to make the transfer at 12 r precisely, and would do so when that hour arrived. As the first strok of I noon was heard, Mr. Bibbett hamdrd over the seal and keys of the office, - accompanNiyg tie actin!i with the 1, usual verbal formula. And Gov. d Hampton was in pos&ssion of the >f office. A few minutes more were .e spent in explaining (be details of is books, papers, etc., and both geut!e n men retired from the premi.se., leav i- ing the office locked, as it will ro main until the key is turned to ad mit Gov. Hampton himself. He wili Ls probably take possession in person ie tomorrow. A few idlers were pres , ent about the building, but only one n or two gentlemen were allowed to be present at the ceremony as wit nesses.-News and Courier, April 12. One of Gen. Hampton's old sol diers some time ago paid him this tribute: "Gen. Hampton never planned d and fought a battle during the late re unpleasantness without covering him g self with glory. He taught his men a toconquer and was a terror to his ene i mies, and in all battles he was every A where present, striking fear into the breasts of the enemy and inspiring - his own men with courage." Gen. Hampton never surrendered. From North Carolina he started out, trying to overtake Jefferson Davis to Y protect him and carry the war to the trans Misssissippi, there to continue the fight in guerrilla fashion if nec eisary. Hs was always happy in the knowledge that he had never bad l to hand over his good saber. C The story of Hampton's chargfs >U upon Kilpatrick's troops reads like r- fiction. Both these charges were 1e Napoleonic. Both were complete surprises, and after the second Hampton said: "A general once sur prised is defeated; a general twice surprised is disgraced." These charges have been regarded as the dashing cavalryman's masterpieces. )5 Hampton's correspondence with to Sherman was another thing that v- showed the force and- character and ie resources of the man. While hunting alter the war an yk accident befell Gen. Hampton by a which he lost one of his legs, but .1 this loss never prevented him from e using the saddle until very recently. is Last May he rode a fine charger d through the streets of Columbia at h the head of the column of veterans. d Gen. Hampton was re elected gov ernor in 1878, and, while governor, iwas elected to the United States senate. He accepted the office and rswas succeeded as governor by WV. D. n Simpson, then lieutenant governor. [ He took his seat in the senate in SMarch, 1879, and served his State yfaithfnlly and well until he was de s. feated for re election by Irby, as a . result of'the upheaval in South Car y alina in 1891. Whben Gen. Hampton took the oath .of office as governior it was adminis tered to him by Col. J. Q. Maraball, of this city, who was then a trial s just ic. -Gen. Hampton was twice married His first wife was Miss Margaret Preston, a sister of William C. Pres ton. From this union there were three children, Wade, Preston and Sallie, all of whom are dead. His second wife was Miss Margaret Mc Duffie, daught r of Gov. McDutlie. From this union there were also three children, who were with him at his death, Miss Mary McDuffie Hampton, George McDnffie Hamp ton and Alfred Hampton. Gien. Hampton also leaves three sisters, Misses Anne, Kate and Caroline. Upon leaving the senate Gjen. Hampton returned to his home where he remained some time and then, in March, 1893, he was appointed United States railroad commissionerc by President Cleveland, an honor i that the people of the State appre I ciated. He held this position until about tw3 years after the inaugura tion of President McKinley. Gen. Hampton has always been most high ly esteemed by every one with whom he came in contact in Washington. He returned home after ceasing to be railroad comiissioner and lived quietly at his home near the city on the Camnder road until April, 1899, when early one morning it was burned. All :emnember the incident at the fire in which the aged general . risked his life, having his eyebrows Kn aenh inn wyi h and moustache singed away in the mountains and opened the cam n at Anderson. The leader rE ;d to above stated yesterday thF tad made the greatest and grand campaign ever conducted. H lucted his fight within the bound )erfect law and order and on a sions displayed the wisdom of mon. The rest of the Recor etion story is told by Professc is in another column. esterday was the anniversar) c day npon which Daniel H. Chan aiu turned over to Waie Hami the State capitol at Columbii it is a coincidence that be bhoul 3 died upon the anniversary < very day that he witnes;sed tb tion of his efforts to reclaim h .e. The followiug documents i Lrd to this matter will be of ei al interest: [earing that Mr. Chamberlain wi ing to yield the possession of ti :utive office in the State hous ernor Hampton addressed hii following note: State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber. olumbia, S. C., April 10, 1877 ir: Having learned that you no ose to turn over to me the exect chamber, with the records an ers belonging to the executi. e now in your possession, I LE aform you that I will send per officer to receive the same i hour you may designate as no venient to yourself. am very respectfully your obed servant, Wade Hampton, Governor. Hon. D. H. Chamberlain. 'o this Mr. Chamberlain prompt: Lied as follows: State of South Carolina, Executive Chamber. Jolumbia, S. C., April 10, 1877. ir: Replying to your note of tb 3, I have to say that my private se ry will meet such officer as y rdesignate at 12 meridian tomo ,at the executive office, for ti pose indicated in your note. Very respectfully, D. H. Chaamberlain, Governor of South Carolina. Hon. Wade Hampton. iews and.Courier, April 11. t ten minutes before 12 the troo] he State house were brought tention.'' The sentry at the go r's door resumed his place in ti ks. Col. Black stood by. Ls the first stroke of the clo aded the order was given, "Atte L, guard; carry arms; right shou: arms; twos right, march." TI aid of heavy and heavier footfa] >unded along the corridors, ai >re the bell had reached the fif ke of the twelve the last file ha ~sed the threshold. A number ro constables, evidently aetir er peremtory and urgent ordei antly sprang to the heavy doo slammed them with a bang,i face of the crowd within, and: immediate rear of the last file< soldiers without, who are hard1 of the way of the closing panel eavy bar dIropped into its bracJ and the military occupation State is ended, much to the r of the citizens and the milita el. in Wednesday, at seven minut Headache kills, not necessarily suddenly, but SURE LY. 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