Colonel Wade Hampton's Regiment of Light Dragoons served under General Thomas Sumter in South Carolina.

In September 1779, Daniel O'Rear served as a private in Captain Richard Allen's Company within Colonel Wade Hampton's Regiment. The company marched to Charleston thru Charlotte to Camden, SC. During this term a detachment of the army at Charleston was in a skirmish about twelve miles up the Ashley River from Charleston. He remained here until his three months enlistment expired and was discharged.

In 1776, William Alexander was appointed by General Griffith Rutherford as Captain of a company of spies and in an engagement with the Cherokee Indians at Seven Mile Mountain in September of that year he received a gunshot wound in the right foot which kept him out of the military service until 1781, when he entered the army again as Captain in Colonel Wade Hampton's Regiment of South Carolina troops and participated in the battles of Cowpens, Fort Motte, Granby, Bigger's Church, and the Siege of Ninety-Six.

Ensign Gibson was an officer under Captain Salathiel Martin in Colonel Hampton's Regiment in November 1778 on an expedition to Charleston to repel a British attack.

By 1781, Joseph Culpeper was a first lieutenant in Alexander's Troop, Wade Hampton's Regiment and was wounded Sep 1781 at the Battle of Eutaw Springs.