Wade Hampton
Character Key Number:
3671
Display Name:
Wade Hampton
Sort Name:
Hampton, Wade
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
Wade Hampton fought with Lee's Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. He was a brigadier general during the fighting at Gaine's Mill in 1862. In The Reivers Lucius' great-grandfather was serving under Hampton as "a color-sergeant" until being wounded in that battle (278).