He escaped scathless from all these encounters save one, in which he was rather severely torn in the forearm.

Many other hunters have used the knife, but perhaps none so frequently as he; for he was always fond of steel, as witness his feats with the "white arm" during the Civil War.
General Hampton always hunted with large packs of hounds, managed sometimes by himself and sometimes by his negro hunters.

He occasionally took out forty dogs at a time.

He found that all his dogs together could not kill a big fat bear, but they occasionally killed three-year-olds, or lean and poor bears.

During the course of his life he has himself killed, or been in at the death of, five hundred bears, at least two thirds of them falling by his own hand.