HF Jack Hinson Novel

[uaskme]

Thanks. That's the nicest thing you've said about him.

The North, Yankee, whatever, preyed on civilians. Didn't care if they were loyal or not. Many accounts of it in mid TN.

Moral outburst by the naive is just that.

 

[13 IL Cav & 64 GA Inf]

He had eight sons.

Wow! Eight sons was a lot, even back then, although 8 total children would not have been considered unusual.

 

[DanSBHawk]

How Yankee of him!

It would be ironic if it turned out Hinson killed more Tennessee civilians than he did Union soldiers.

 

[Belfoured]

The North, Yankee, whatever, preyed on civilians. Didn't care if they were loyal or not. Many accounts of it in mid TN.

Moral outburst by the naive is just that.

Now that's a "moral outburst by the naive". Too bad the "Yankees" weren't the only ones who "preyed on civilians" - that includes the specialty of forcibly taking some back for their masters.

 

[Rebforever]

I wonder who was helping to raise the family when he was gone?

 

[TallTallMan]

Thanks. That's the nicest thing you've said about him.

I guess I should be honored I've been called a Yankee, then?

 

[TallTallMan]

I wonder who was helping to raise the family when he was gone?

He--per family tradition--had ex-slaves that stuck with him.

 

[19thGeorgia]

The Feds must have burned Hinson's house during the summer of 1862.

Testimony (March 4-6, 1863)-
Amanda Peel: "I have not been at his house...since last June; and he ---- lives 8 or 10 miles beyond where he formerly lived."
Lucinda Wagoner: "...had not seen him since last summer."
Thomas Lancaster: "I have not seen Jack Hinson since last harvest."
G.W. Bufford: "I have not seen Hinson for six months."

https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/tsla/UnionProvostPDFs/4220.pdf

 

[DanSBHawk]

The Feds must have burned Hinson's house during the summer of 1862.

Testimony (March 4-6, 1863)-
Amanda Peel: "I have not been at his house...since last June; and he ---- lives 8 or 10 miles beyond where he formerly lived."
Lucinda Wagoner: "...had not seen him since last summer."
Thomas Lancaster: "I have not seen Jack Hinson since last harvest."
G.W. Bufford: "I have not seen Hinson for six months."

https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/tsla/UnionProvostPDFs/4220.pdf

In the same source, Edmund Campbell testified that Hinson believed that "Rougemont was the cause of his house being burnt."

 

[TallTallMan]

In the same source, Edmund Campbell testified that Hinson believed that Rougemont was the "cause of his house being burnt."

Dang...if that's true, I guess maybe he did rob families?

 

[DanSBHawk]

Dang...if that's true, I guess maybe he did rob families?

I'm not sure what it means. Rougemont wasn't alleged to be a guerrilla. He was just a neighbor of Hinson's. I don't know how he would be the cause of Hinson's house being burnt.

 

[19thGeorgia]

Hinson was a suspect in the killing of Rougemont, but was not charged with the crime. From the testimony, it appears the provost marshal had no case.

 

[TallTallMan]

Back to the OT, I found a past thread on the Revel novel:

NF - Please Read my Rival | Civil War Books, Stories, & Media

AUGUST 16, 2019,CODY C. ENGDAHL Please Read my Rival My friend and fellow author Rick Revel published his American Civil War Novel around the same time I did. It’s called In the Hills of Tennessee. It’s based on the life of the real Jack Hinson. Hinson went on a murderous rampage using his...

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