Good to see this approach - its far more helpful. I would still remain skeptical of the Memphis Appeal article - written on the run or "refugeed" and naturally prone to some aggenda from dubious sources. Modern newspaper professionalism was unknown. See B. G. Ellis, The Moving Appeal; Mr. McClanahan, Mrs. Dill, and the Civil War's Great Newspaper Run (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2003).

Slowly, the building blocks of the Hinson story emerge.