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For years and years, there was only one full-length biography of Wade Hampton, written in the &#;s by Manly Wade Wellman titled Giant in Gray: A Biography of Wade Hampton of South Carolina. Although it was an early biography and clearly biased toward the Southern perspective, it nevertheless gave full coverage to both Hampton&#;s military career during the Civil War as well as his long-running post-war political career. This book&#;s weaknesses are its obvious lack of objectivity, and its failure to take advantage of unpublished manuscript material.

The last few years have seen a sudden explosion of new biographies of Hampton. The first one, by Ed Longacre, is titled Gentleman and Soldier: A Biography of Wade Hampton, III. Longacre&#;s biography, published in , provides the best coverage of Hampton&#;s military service of any of the books. It&#;s well written and well-researched (I gave Ed some material for the project). Its coverage of Hampt

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Gentleman and Soldier: A Biography of Wade Hampton III

October 17,

Edward G. Longacre has written many books dealing with subjects relating to the Civil War and has added greatly to the accumulated knowledge of that era. In this biography of General Wade Hampton, the author has again contributed to general Civil War knowledge but he has also accomplished much more. With this, the first full biography of Hampton since , Longacre has rescued the name of this great soldier from anonymity and introduced him to a new generation of Civil War readers.

Longacre points out, early and often that Hampton's reputation has suffered the fate of many other highly successful Confederate leaders who weren't from Virginia. This bias against non-Virginians has been a major topic in some of Longacre's other books and the author may well be on a crusade to rectify this situation. It is a crusade that is long overdue in both academic and popular history.
Most of this book is concerned with Hampton's wa

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Wade Hampton III
6th President of the Confederate States
In office February 22, &#;– February 22,
Vice President	Benjamin Tillman
Preceded by	William Mahone
Succeeded by	David Gardiner Tyler
Senator from South Carolina
In office –
Personal details
Born	March 28, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
Died	July 5, (aged 81) Miami, Florida, C.S.
Political party	Dixiecrat (–)
Military service
Allegiance	Confederate States of America
Service/branch	Confederate Army
Years of service	&#;
Rank	Lieutenant General
Commands	Hampton's Legion Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia
Battles/wars	War for Southern Independence

Wade Hampton III (March 28, – April 11, ) was the sixth president of the Confederate States, serving from to A member of the Dixiecrat Party, he previously served as Senator from South Carolina from to Prior to his political life he combated in the War for Southern Independe