HF Jack Hinson Novel

[TallTallMan]

If you donated to his cause you'd get one of those prints for free. Seriously, if I had contributed, I don't know what I'd do. How do you say "No, thanks"?

I sorta hate to make fun of this dude, since he comes off as a nice guy, but I am actually embarrassed he thought those "paintings" were publishable. I can't imagine how his publisher thought those were appropriate for anything, anywhere. They are some of the worst pieces of art I've ever seen.

Also why is there a guy running with a piece of KFC?

 

[TallTallMan]

So now there's two fiction books written about Jack Hinson?

Watched the music video. The problem with the claim about the "farmer who brought the yankees to their knees" is that there is no record that the yankees gave any thought at all to Hinson. No evidence of his sons being beheaded. No evidence of the cavalry regiment losing even a single man to a sniper. No evidence of the boat thing. It's all a fairy tale.

I apologize for posting that music video, then!

It wasn't the beheading that confused me; it was how we know they were really squirrel-hunting when they had arrested before for being spies before. We have no idea what was really going on, or why they were executed.

 

[Nathan Stuart]

Some aspects of Jack Hinson's story, like the number of claimed kills (100+) from his sniping actions, are difficult to believe.

Would treat the popularly told version of his life as a tale - combining truth and imagination (necessary for any historical fiction work).

 

[TallTallMan]

Some aspects of Jack Hinson's story, like the number of claimed kills (100+) from his sniping actions, are difficult to believe.

Would treat the popularly told version of his life as a tale - combining truth and imagination (necessary for any historical fiction work).

I never understood why his notches stopping at 37 means that he "lost count". Doesn't that mean he killed 37 men?

 

[TallTallMan]

Here's an actually reasonable summary from Land Between the Lakes: Experiment in Recreation:

 

[DanSBHawk]

I apologize for posting that music video, then!

No, it was entertaining!

 

[DanSBHawk]

Here's an actually reasonable reasonable summary from Land Between the Lakes: Experiment in Recreation:

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This is more reasonable. But if his 36 claim was mostly shots at passing boats, how did he confirm them as "kills?"

 

[TallTallMan]

This is more reasonable. But if his 36 claim was mostly shots at passing boats, how did he confirm them as "kills?"

McKenney claimed that Hinson "confirmed" they were dead before marking a notch in his gun. How I don't remember.

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

Hinson legend revised via old records

Research of Stewart Co. Archives volunteer uncovers discrepancies in legend of Civil War sniper Capt. Jack Hinson

www.theleafchronicle.com

 

[TallTallMan]

Hinson legend revised via old records

Research of Stewart Co. Archives volunteer uncovers discrepancies in legend of Civil War sniper Capt. Jack Hinson

www.theleafchronicle.com

Well...there goes the Hinson story.

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

Well...there goes the Hinson story.

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Daily News Journal Murfreesboro Mar 21 1993

Clipping found in The Daily News-Journal published in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on 3/21/1993. Daily News Journal Murfreesboro Mar 21 1993

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Jack Hinson information

Clipping found in Stewart-Houston Times published in Clarksville, Tennessee on 6/5/2018. Jack Hinson information

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[Belfoured]

The music video:

Somewhere the owner of a costume shop is ecstatic that he finally got rid of some unmarketable inventory.

 

[Belfoured]

This is more reasonable. But if his 36 claim was mostly shots at passing boats, how did he confirm them as "kills?"

Anybody familiar with WWII knows that pilots routinely claimed more kills than were actually verified. If Hinson is claiming kills from a distance of a half mile on boats we have a similar problem. It's not like his retriever was bringing them back to him.

 

[uaskme]

I never understood why his notches stopping at 37 means that he "lost count". Doesn't that mean he killed 37 men?

Prove he didn't. Something we can all agree on. Whatever the number it wasn't nearly enough!

 

[TallTallMan]

Prove he didn't. Something we can all agree on. Whatever the number it wasn't nearly enough!

Can you prove he did?

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

Death of Capt. Jack Hinson

Clipping found in Clarksville Weekly Chronicle published in Clarksville, Tennessee on 3/1/1873. Death of Capt. Jack Hinson: 3/1/1873

www.newspapers.com

 

[TallTallMan]

Anybody familiar with WWII knows that pilots routinely claimed more kills than were actually verified. If Hinson is claiming kills from a distance of a half mile on boats we have a similar problem. It's not like his retriever was bringing them back to him.

Come on; didn't you know he was from Krypton? He had telescopic vision.

 

[DanSBHawk]

Death of Capt. Jack Hinson

Clipping found in Clarksville Weekly Chronicle published in Clarksville, Tennessee on 3/1/1873. Death of Capt. Jack Hinson: 3/1/1873

www.newspapers.com

Wow. That was a heck of an illness. Killed him in an hour.

The article says that large rewards were offered for his head. Wouldn't there be some record of this?

 

[East Tennessee Roots]

"She will answer admirably in the Tennessee or Cumberland River to intimidate bushwhackers"

 

[BillO]

That's not why I doubt it. I doubt it because it was never reported in the ORN and not one person ever mentioned it during and/or after the war.

What would they have reported? Someone was wounded or shot while transiting up the river?