I have watched Tom incubate his Hinson story and admire both his tireless pursuit of information and facts as well as weaving it into an engaging story. Of course, it is folkore, legend, a lot of myth - its local history and all history starts as local with family lore, a modicum of fact, wide latitude for interpretation and just plain fun. So, let's not get hooked too closely on whether Jack Hinson was legitimate Confederate (he was not), a felon (he was a murderer even during wartime), a partisan (not according to Confederate law), guerrilla (close if not precisely), and one could go on for by 1864-1865, much of rural Kentucky and Tennessee were populated with such (robbers, murderers, freedom fighters, partisans, guerrillas, deserters etc. from both sides, local home guards, local citizenry) - the true civil war that we, today, don't want to admit, study or learn anything from. Meanwhile, Tom has populated the post-Forts Henry and Donelson occupied upper heartland with a real character, a plausible theme, fun read and open invitation for others to come up with real facts plus more legends to enhance our knowledge and flesh-out all that we still don't know about much of the events of 1861-1865 - much less thereafter - that period called reconstruction that at state and local level replicates all the mess we now have in Iraq and Afghanistan and from which, we apparently, have learned nothing.