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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArkansasHINDMAN, Thomas Carmichael
(1828—1868)
HINDMAN, Thomas Carmichael, a Representative from Arkansas; born in Knoxville, Tenn., January 28, 1828; moved with his parents to Jacksonville, Calhoun County, Ala., in 1832 and to Ripley, Tippah County, Miss., in 1841; attended public and private schools; was graduated from the Lawrenceville Classical Institute near Princeton, N.J., in 1846; raised a company in Tippah County in 1846 for the Second Mississippi Regiment under Colonel Clark in the war with Mexico; served throughout the war as lieutenant and later as captain of his company; returned to Ripley, Miss.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1851 and commenced practice in Ripley, Miss.; member of the State house of representatives in 1854-1856; moved to Helena, Ark., in 1853 and continued the practice of law; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1859-March 3, 1861); reelected to the Thirty-seventh Congress in 1860 but declined to take his seat and raised and commanded “Hindman’s legion” in 1861 for the Confederate Army; commissioned brigadier general September 28, 1861, and major general April 18, 1862; moved to the city of Mexico after the war and engaged in literary pursuits; returned to Helena, Ark., in 1868 and resumed the practice of law; was assassinated in that city on September 27, 1868; interment in Maple Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
Nash, Charles Edward. Biographical Sketches of Gen. Pat Cleburne and Gen. T.C. Hindman, Together With Humorous Anecdotes and Reminiscences of the Late Civil War
. Little Rock, Ark.: Tunnah & Pittard, printers, 1898. Reprint, Dayton, Ohio: Press of Morningside Bookshop, 1977.
Hindman, Thomas Carmichael. Report of Major General Hindman, of his operations in the Trans-Mississippi district
. Richmond: R.M. Smith, public printer, 1864.
———. Speech of Hon. Thos. C. Hindman at Helena, Arkansas, November 28, 1859
. [N.p., 1860?]
Nash, Charles Edward. Biographical Sketches of Gen. Pat Cleburne and Gen. T. C. Hindman, Together with Humorous Anecdotes and Reminiscences of the Late Civil War.
Little Rock, Ark.: Tunnah & Pittard, printers, 1898. Reprint, Dayton, Ohio: Press of Morningside Bookshop, 1977.
Neal, Diane, and Thomas W. Kremm. Lion of the South: General Thomas C. Hindman
. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1993.
Worley, Ted R., ed. “A Letter Written by General Thomas C. Hindman in Mexico.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly
15 (Winter 1956): 365-68.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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