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Re: Civil War Sniper--John Hinson

The manuscript you speak of is full of the same old Yankee carpetbagger and Southern scalawag denigration of an honorable man. Since my Stewart County, Tennessee, ancestors were proud Southerners also, who did their duty and military service for the principles of State sovereignty, I deplore that Stewart County citizens of today would denigrate the honorable actions of their ancestors and apply undocumented and fabricated myth to their history.
As I, a US military veteran, have thoroughly documented from primary sources, Captain John Hinson was a recognized Confederate soldier and not any sort of outlaw acting on his own.
Unfortunately, the manuscript you mention gets Captain Jack of the Modoc Indians in California, who killed General Canby, mixed up with Captain John Hinson from Stewart County, not to mention the many other mistakes that even the National Park Service rangers at Fort Donelson have noted. It seems that Yankee folklore, myth, and legend about Hinson takes precedence over the honorable and factual truth of Hinson and our other Stewart County heroes of the War Between the States. The true story of Captain Hinson is much more interesting than the Yankee myth.
I was told that I would never be able to get Captain Hinson a Confederate military marker from the US government, but I proved it to the VA that he was an actual Confederate captain.
It was not until about 35 years or so after the war, which was also well after Hinson’s death that the Yankee propaganda of lies starting to take over the true story of Captain Hinson. You would think by now that Southerners would wake up to the repeated slander that the Northern hordes have constantly thrown upon our Southern and Confederate heritage.

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