The 2nd S.C. Cavalry

At the 135th Gettysburg Re-Enactment
Wade Hampton Historian, Captain Neill Rose (near) and Trooper Terry M. Gatch from the Hampton Legion contingent at the 135th Gettysburg re-enactment. Trooper Gatch, from the Beaufort District Troop, held the great honor of  "Color Sergeant" for his Hamptons Brigade.   The colors read,
"Hamptons Brigade"     "Honor and Immortality"
 OUR SCHEDULE FOR 1998
Jan. 30-31 - Feb. 1          Rivers Bridge S.C.
Feb. 20-22                   Battle of Aiken. S.C.
March 6-8                    Gambles Hotel, S.C.
March 20-22           Battle of Lexington S.C.
April 18            Newberry Lantern Tour S.C.
        May 2                Confederate Memorial Day, S.C.
May 15-17                   Battle of Resaca, Ga.
June 5-7                      Greenway Battle S.C.
June 12-14    Battle of Flood Tide, Charleston
July 1-5                      135th Gettysburg, Pa.
Sept. 12-13                           Tunnel Hill Ga.
Oct. 2-4                                        Rose Hill
  Oct 23-25  STONEMANS RAID TACTICAL
 Legion Sponsored Event (one of a kind!)
Nov. 13-15                     To Be Announced
Nov. 21       Oakley Park Lantern Tour S.C.
(Events subject to change)
 Gettysburg, July 1863
Under General Stuart's Command
Hampton, Chamblis, Fitz Lee, B.H. Robertson, Jenkins.
Artillery..Breathed, Griffin, Hart, McGregor, Moorman.
Under Wade Hampton's Command
1st N.C. Cav.        1st S.C. Cav.       2nd S.C. Cav.
Cobb's Legion    Jeff Davis Legion     Phillip's Legion
"To Horse"
The Mounts of old stir up thoughts of a lasting and sometimes dying partnership. Men who loved and cared for their mounts.  A bond that cannot be explained. A trust in one another thoroughout war and peace. You think of names like "Arab" who had a book written about him and who rode throughout the war with Hampton's man Prioleau Henderson. Of "Traveler" who carried General Lee and was also written about. Of "Butler" General Hampton's mount. And of "Roderick," General Forrest's mount who was eulogized in poem. And many more.
Beloved mounts who littered the battlefields across the land as did there riders. They gave all that they had. The did all they were asked. They were hungry. They were cold. They bled.
We remember them here now. Like our veteran fathers, we shall not forget. We lift there names to life again and in doing so, simple honor is bestowed.
"Three cheers for the Grand Ole Chargers"!
Hampton Legion Mounts
To name a few..........."Tanner," a Captains mount who has joined the ranks of memory and honor.
C.J. the line wrecker. Rebel, Dixie, Chaps, Scudder, Katie, Bonnie blue, J.W. (Joe Wheeler), Ciscoe, Lee, Shogun,Cheyenne, Sorry Horse, Brandy. Others will be added just as soon as there owners find out that they were left out.
Tried and true. Tested through wind and rain and heat and cold. Kicked, slashed, burnt, shot and cussed. We love'um all!

Hampton Legion Goes To The Movies

November the 15th the NBC Network will air the "American Tempest."
August was a busy and HOT month in the South Carolina Lowcountry for Hampton Legion and other Palmetto Battalion members. The 2nd S.C. Cavalry,
Harts Battery, H.L. Infantry and Medical Corps served as Mississippi Cavalry and Confederate Infantry as well as "those other" blue bellied people. Peter Fonda stars in the movie with other well known actors from Hollywood. We wait to see who won this war and if the South was once again the ignorant, ragged hillbillies that  hollywood and northern history have made us in the past. So far we can only tell you about some L.A  or N.Y. looking "George of the Jungle" dude who would have been hung on site in the real South of the 1860's and maybe even the 1960's. Go figure. WANTED, someone to make a movie about the REAL TRUE SOUTH, with real facts thrown in for good measure!
Comments of Terry M. Gatch and not of Hampton Legion

A Quote Of General D.H.Hill:

"I wish to tell the people of the South which has passed away, that you may admire and imitate whatever was grand and noble in this history, and reject whatever was wrong and defective. The scandals that have brought shame upon the American name occurred when the old South was out of power. No official from the old South was ever charged with roguery, no great statesman of that period ever corruptly made money out of office. I love to hear the philanthropic praise of Mr. Lincoln and call him the second Washington, for I remember he was born in Kentucky and was from first to last a Southern man in all his characteristics. I love to hear them say that Gen. H. Thomas was the stoutest fighter in the Union Army, for he was born in Virginia. I love to hear the wonderful deeds of McClellen, Grant, Meade and Hancock, for if they were such grand warriors for crushing with their massive columns the thin lines of the ragged rebels what must be said of Lee and the two Johnsons, Beauregard and Jackson, who held millions at bay for four years with their fragments of shadowy armies?  Pile up huge pedestals an surmount them with bronze horses and riders of bronze. All the Union monuments are eloquent of the prowess of the Rebels and their leaders." "Amen"
 
 
 
 
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