Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Kwamandan na biyu, mai arziki na kudancin Carolina mai suna Wade Hampton III, ya yi aiki a matsayin babban kwamandan brigade da kwamandan kwamandan karkashin J.E.B. Stuart. Lokacin da aka raba dakarun bayan mutuwar Stuart, Hampton ya ci gaba da umurninsa na tsawon watanni uku har sai Janar Robert E. Lee ya sake komawa Cavalry Corps a ranar 11 ga Agusta, 1864, a karkashin umurnin Hampton. Ya fara gudanar da rundunar ta fara ne tare da farautar sojojin da ke tare da Kogin Pamunkey a cikin rikice-rikice kamar yakin Haw's Shop
(Shagon Hawe na tarihi). Hampton ya fito ne daga Charleston, South Carolina, kuma ya ci gaba da umurni da rundunar sojan doki daga Carolinas a cikin sashinsa. Ci gaba da umurnin ta hanyar Siege na Petersburg, Janar Lee ya yanke shawarar saki rundunar sojan doki na Carolina, ciki har da Hampton, don taimakawa da kare South Carolina a karkashin Sojan Tennessee, kamar yadda Maj. Janar William T. Sherman ya fara tafiya daga Georgia zuwa Columbia, South Carolina. An tura Hampton da rukunin sojan doki na Carolina ta hanyar jirgin kasa zuwa Columbia, kuma sun yi yaƙi da ayyukan jinkiri da tsaro a kan Sherman. Muhimman alkawurra a karkashin jagorancin Hampton sun hada da: