Unknown (4), Co. A, Hampton’s Legion, On Preparations to Move to Manassas
The following letter is from a youth of nineteen years, a member of the Washington Light Infantry Volunteers: Richmond, July 18, 1861. My Dear Mother and Father: – Gen. Scott has attacked our forces at...
View ArticleUnit History – Hampton’s Legion
Was organized by Wade Hampton during the spring of 1861. It contained a cavalry and infantry battalion, but they did not serve together. The cavalry battalion fought in the Seven Days’ Battles and in...
View Article“Legion,” Hampton’s Legion, On the Death of Col. James Cameron, 79th New York...
Who Killed Cameron – Near Manassas, August 16, 1861. – To the Editors of the Richmond Whig: I have seen several answers to the above interrogatory, but none which, I think, gives a true version of the...
View ArticlePvt. David Myers, Co. B, Hampton’s Legion
[FOR THE COURIER.] “A Brave Soldier Boy!” Among the many acts of heroic bravery, so widely circulated among the newspapers as stirring “scenes by blood and field” in the recent battle of Manassas...
View ArticleDeath of Pvt. Robert Sweat, Co. I, Hampton’s Legion
The Late Robert E. Sweat, of the Hampton Legion. ———- To the Editor of the Charleston Mercury: Of the many young and brave spirts, who, on the battle field of Manassas, gave up their lives to their...
View ArticleA. J. Hartley (“Old Texas”), And the Death of Col. James Cameron, 79th New...
Who Killed Cameron? – A correspondent of the Richmond Whig lately attributed the killing of Col. Cameron, of the New York Seventy-ninth (Scotch) Regiment, to “Old Texas,” who is thus described by the...
View ArticleLt. George W. Lester, Co. F, and Corp. W. Edmund O’Connor, Co. A, Hampton’s...
The Palmetto Flag Planted upon Sherman’s Battery. – A correspondent writes to the Richmond Enquirer correcting the statement that Gen. Beauregard had borne forward the flag of the Hampton Legion. He...
View ArticleObituary – Lt. Col. Benjamin J. Johnson
Obituary. ———- Lieut. Col. Benj. J. Johnson Lieut. Col. Benjamin J. Johnson, the second in command of the Hampton Legion, is a native of the town of Beaufort, S. C., and was about forty-five years of...
View ArticleEdmund Ruffin, On the Battle and Aftermath
NOTES OF THE WAR. ———- Our Richmond Correspondence. ———- Richmond, July 61. Edmund Ruffin – What he says of the Great Battle – His Part in the Fight – An Exciting Scene – The Field after the Fight,...
View ArticleHibernian Society, Charleston, SC
While in Charleston the week of this past St. Patrick’s Day to present to the Ft. Sumter Civil War Roundtable, I made a pit stop with my brother at the Hibernian Society, where he is a member. The...
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