Wade Hampton III

Wade Hampton III was a Confederate Senator from South Carolina during the Second Mexican War. When he heard of President Longstreet's proposed constitutional amendment to free slaves, he asked General Thomas Jackson to use the C.S. Army to stop the amendment. Jackson privately thought this was a bad idea, but the next day the C.S. Army was mobilized against the U.S. after an armistice failed, so Jackson had no opportunity to put this plan into action if he had wanted.

Hampton was the grandfather of Confederate President Wade Hampton V.