Wade Hampton III - in Fiction

In Fiction

Hampton appears in How Few Remain, the first novel in Harry Turtledove's Southern Victory Series, an alternate history wherein the South won the American Civil War. In it, Hampton prepares to lead a coup against Confederate States President James Longstreet after Longstreet announces plans to end slavery. Later in the series, in the novel American Empire: Blood and Iron, Hampton's fictional grandson, Wade Hampton V is elected President of the C.S. in 1921, but is assassinated shortly after by a member of the Freedom Party, an organization that resembles the Brown Shirts.

In Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, Scarlett O'Hara's first husband, Charles Hamilton, serves in Hampton's regiment, dying of measles only seven weeks later. As it was fashionable (according to Mitchell) to name baby boys after their fathers' commanding officers, Scarlett's son by Charles is therefore named Wade Hampton Hamilton.

In the North and South trilogy by John Jakes, the character Charles Main serves with Hampton's cavalry throughout the Civil War.

Wade Hampton and his sons appear in Merritt Parmelee Allen’s novel Johnny Reb published in 1952 by Longmans, Green and Co. The novel begins right before the war and shows both Hampton’s style and character. The book chronicles the adventures the Hamptons and a neighbor boy Ezra Todd have in Hampton’s Legion and includes the Beefsteak Raid, the incident of Wade Hampton engaging the Union sniper and the death of his son Preston.