Hi: I am visiting the Univ. of North Carolina site: DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN SOUTH. I punched in the keyword: Hinds and want to get these Hinds entries into our archives. But by all means visit this site yourself - still laughing at what he thought of another general which came in the paragraph after this first one. Use your Find feature to find mention of General Thomas Hinds - Howell Hinds, his son in the excerpts pasted below. Regards, Nan Wolf List Administrator - Hinds-L [email protected] - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/montgomery/montgom.html REMINISCENCES OF A MISSISSIPPIAN IN PEACE AND WAR: Electronic Edition. Frank Alexander Montgomery, b. 1830 Funding from the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Competition supported the electronic publication of this title. © This work is the property of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text. Call number 973.78 M78r 1901 (Davis Library, UNC-CH) ====================== REMINISCENCES OF A MISSISSIPPIAN IN PEACE AND WAR BY FRANK A. MONTGOMERY Lieutenant-Colonel First Mississippi Cavalry, Armstrong's Mississippi Brigade; Member of Legislature, 1880, 1882, 1884, 1896, and one term Judge of Fourth Circuit Court District of Miss. CINCINNATI THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY PRESS 1901 - ------------------------------------------- Found in Chapter One My first effort to be a soldier was to join a cavalry company, gotten up by Charles Clark, then a lawyer living in Fayette, Jefferson county. This was a great man, and in another place, when I shall have occasion to mention him, I will pay a tribute of love and admiration to his character and services to his state. Our company was to be called the Jefferson Troop, after the celebrated company commanded by General Thomas Hinds in the battle of New Orleans, of whom General Jackson, speaking of its charge upon the British lilies, said: "It was the wonder of one army and the admiration of the other." I knew General Hinds in my boyhood days, and remember him as a fine old gentleman of the olden time. For him the county of Hinds was named, and thus his name will live as long as the state does. - ----------------------------------------------------\ CAMP NEAR MECHANICSBURG, June 27, 1863. . . . A few days ago two regiments from the command were sent out on a scout, and had a pretty sharp fight with the Yankees, capturing about thirty and killing as many more, our loss about twenty killed and wounded. Howell Hinds, who is here attached to Wirt Adams' regiment (one of those engaged) as a sort of free fighter, I suppose, was dangerously wounded. A few days later General Cosby went out with several regiments, mine among the rest, but we saw no Yankees. Colonel Pinson was out of camp sick, I expect him back ============================================================ Page 123 CAMP NEAR MECHANICSBURG, June 27, 1863. . . . A few days ago two regiments from the command were sent out on a scout, and had a pretty sharp fight with the Yankees, capturing about thirty and killing as many more, our loss about twenty killed and wounded. Howell Hinds, who is here attached to Wirt Adams' regiment (one of those engaged) as a sort of free fighter, I suppose, was dangerously wounded. A few days later General Cosby went out with several regiments, mine among the rest, but we saw no Yankees. Colonel Pinson was out of camp sick, I expect him back -------------- Page 124 to day. . . . It is impossible to say when and where General Johnston will move, no one knows but himself. . . . We can hear at this camp every cannon fired at Vicksburg, and some days, and even nights, the firing has been terrific. I have heard no guns yesterday or to-day. I confess I have my fears whether we will be able to save the place, but hope for the best. If there is abundance of supplies there, and it is said there is, I have no fears but the garrison can hold out some time yet, and I suppose General Johnston will certainly move against the enemy in time to save the place. But Johnston's plans are only known to himself. There is a story in camp that he told a lady the other day who asked him some questions that "if he thought his hat knew the thoughts of his head he would burn it up." . . . . This was an old story told of some eminent commander of a former age which I had read somewhere, but it served to amuse the camp, and did not lessen the confidence the army already began to feel in General Johnston. The Howell Hinds mentioned in the letter was a son of the famous General Thomas Hinds of Mississippi's early history, and was now well advanced in years, had been my neighbor when I lived in Jefferson county, and was a man of large property in that county and Washington, and I was surprised to hear he was with the army. Learning that he was at a house a few miles only from camp, I went to see him, and he said his reason for coming into the army was that he thought the time had come when every man who could shoulder a gun should turn out and fight for his home. He was badly wounded, but he recovered from the wound only to be killed in a private difficulty not his own, in the city of Greenville, within two years after the war, while trying to separate two friends who were fighting. =========================================