A man in full: Cashiers Historical Society, biographers, history experts and fans explore the life and complex times of Wade Hampton III
By Michael Beadle
Growing up in South Carolina, Robert Lathan remembers how just about everything and everyone was named after Wade Hampton — schools, parks, hotels, towns, and especially children. More than a century after Hampton’s death, this wealthy landowner, Confederate general, governor and senator of South Carolina continues to cast a long shadow on the lands and the people he encountered — including the Cashiers community in Jackson County.
Rash draws on his own Civil War ties in his new novel, The World Made Straight
By Sarah Kucharski • Staff Writer
History books and literature long have recounted and regaled the Civil War, examined its long-lasting effects in determining who “we” are as a great and unified South, and how “we” are not yet ready to lay down arms between victor and vanquished.
