Wade Hampton Papers, 1791-1907.

Summary

Creator:

Hampton, Wade, 1752-1835., Hampton, Wade, 1791-1858., and Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902.

Abstract:

The collection contains microfilm versions of antebellum business correspondence and antebellum and Civil War family correspondence of three generations of Wade Hamptons: Wade Hampton I (1754-1835), army officer and United States representative from Virginia; Wade Hampton II (1791-1858); and Wade Hampton III (1818-1902), Confederate Army officer and governor and United States 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.

Extent:

300 items

Language:

Materials in English

Library Catalog Link:

View UNC library catalog record for this item

Background

Biographical / historical:

Wade Hampton I (1754-1835), was an army officer and United States representative from Virginia. Wade Hampton II was born in 1791 and died in 1858). Wade Hampton III (1818-1902), was a Confederate Army officer and governor and United States senator of South Carolina.

Scope and content:

The collection contains microfilm versions of antebellum business correspondence and antebellum and Civil War family correspondence of three generations of Wade Hamptons: Wade Hampton I (1754-1835), army officer and United States representative from Virginia; Wade Hampton II (1791-1858); and Wade Hampton III (1818-1902), Confederate Army officer and governor and United States 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.

Processing information:

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Laura Hart, June 2021

Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.

Sensitive materials statement:

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Related

Related material:

• Oliver Beirne Papers (#55); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• William Porcher Miles Papers (#508), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Wade Hampton Papers (#1063), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• James Amedee Gaudet Papers (#2334), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Separated material:

• Image folder (PF-871/1)
• M-871/1

Other finding aids:

A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.

Location of originals:

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 Carolina Library, University of South Carolina, Columbia.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Agriculture--Louisiana--History--19th century.
Agriculture--South Carolina--History--19th century.
Cotton--South Carolina--History--19th century.
Plantation life--Mississippi.
Plantations--Louisiana--Ascension Parish.
Plantations--South Carolina.
Rice--South Carolina--History--19th century.
Sugar--Louisiana--History--19th century.

Names:

Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
Hampton family.
Hampton, Margaret Preston, b. 1851.
Hampton, Mary Fisher.
Hampton, Wade, 1752-1835.
Hampton, Wade, 1791-1858.
Hampton, Wade, 1818-1902.

Places:

Houmas Plantation (Ascension Parish, La.)
Mississippi--Social life and customs.
Walnut Ridge Plantation (Miss.)
Wild Woods Plantation (Miss.)

Restrictions to access:

This collection contains microfilm copies of original physical documents that are not owned by the Library or stored in Wilson Special Collections Library.

Restrictions to use:

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, S.C.

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], in the Wade Hampton Papers, #871, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Location of this collection:

Southern Historical Collection

Louis Round Wilson Library

200 South Road

Chapel Hill, NC 27515

Contact:

(919) 962-3765

wilsonlibrary@unc.edu