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#871
WADE HAMPTON PAPERS
Summary

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Hampton, Wade, 1752-1835.
Papers, 1791-1907.
300 (ca.) items.

Microfilm.  These papers were microfilmed while on deposit at the
University of North Carolina, 1944-1974.  They were withdrawn by the donor
in 1974 and are now located at the South Caroliniana Library, University of
South Carolina, Columbia.

Antebellum business correspondence and antebellum and Civil War family
correspondence of three generations of Wade Hamptons:  Wade Hampton I
(1752-1835), army officer and U.S. representative from Virginia; Wade
Hampton II (1791-1858); and Wade Hampton III (1818-1902), Confederate Army
officer and governor and U.S. senator of South Carolina.  The bulk of the
papers are those of Wade Hampton I and concern his Houmas sugar plantation
in Ascension Parish, La., and his South Carolina rice and cotton
plantations, including the purchase of plantation supplies and the
marketing of his crops, chiefly 1829-1835.  Personal papers of Wade Hampton
II and Wade Hampton III include letters to Mary Fisher Hampton, daughter
and sister, respectively, concerning family, social, and plantation news
from Walnut Ridge and Wild Woods, Miss., and letters from Wade Hampton III
to his first wife, Margaret (Preston) Hampton (b. 1851), from England and
Scotland, 1846 (typed transcript copies); and to his second wife in the
late 1850s and during the Civil War.  Later items concern family history
and do not relate to Wade Hampton III's political or military careers.

SEE ALSO:  Oliver Beirne papers (#55); William Porcher Miles papers (#508);
Wade Hampton papers (#1063); James Amedee Gaudet papers (#2334) in the
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at  Chapel
Hill.

Ü540    Permission to cite, quote, or reproduce for publication from these
papers must be obtained from the Director, South Caroliniana Collection,
University of South Carolina, Columbia.

ONLINE CATALOG TERMS:
   Agriculture--Louisiana--History--19th century.
   Agriculture--South Carolina--History--19th century.
   Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
   Cotton--South Carolina--History--19th century.
   Hampton family.
   Hampton, Margaret Preston, b. 1851.
   Hampton, Mary Fisher.
   Hampton, Wade, 1752-1835.
   Hampton, Wade, 1791-1858.
   Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902.
   Houmas Plantation (Ascension Parish, La.).
   Mississippi--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Plantation life--Mississippi.
   Plantations--Louisiana--Ascension Parish.
   Plantations--South Carolina.
   Rice--South Carolina--History--19th century.
   Sugar--Louisiana--History--19th century.
   Walnut Ridge Plantation (Miss.).
   Wild Woods Plantation (Miss.).

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