There's an excellent biography out there on Jack Hinson, and he far from started the fight against the Union Army. Hinson was actually quite cordial and was very friendly with and had dinner with Ulysses Grant on more than one occasion. Grant was recalled back to the east from the Tennessee campaign and less competent and more brutal commanders were put in charge who cared little or nothing for the rules of war. Hinson's two sons were out hunting one morning and a Union cavalry patrol found them. Thinking they were Confederate guerillas, Jack's two sons were shot, then their heads cut off. The Union cavalry Lieutenant took the heads, stuck them on the fence post in front of Jack, his wife and remaining children and the bodies were brough to the local town square. If it wasn't for a local doctor who happened to be visiting with the Hinsons and who witnessed the event, the Union soldiers would have taken Jack too despite not having any evidence of him being involved with the confederacy in any way. Jack would lose two more sons who were involved with the Confederacy but as enlisted soldiers, then his home was burned to the ground and two more of his kids died of disease while they were in hiding. Jack Hinson was 56 years old when this all happened, not at all a young man to be going off to fight.
I wish a little more research would have been done here. One, Jack had his rifle made after his sons were killed, not before the war. He went to Lewis County and had the gun custom made because he knew the rifles he currently had weren't up to the job. The gunmaker was indeed William E. Goodwin who used what parts he had on hand because with the war on, you couldn't get anything new in past Union troops which occupied the whole area. Jack didn't even start his one man war until spring of 1863, two years into the war. I recommend you get the book, "Jack Hinson's One Man War by Tom McKenney who did an excellent job of researching Jack and his entire family as well as tons of records before putting it all together. That book was written in 2009, before this video came out so someone could have looked at it first before they put this together.
Just yesterday, I was trying to somewhat accurately shoot my .308 Ruger with a 4-16x50 Vortex scope. To be able to hit a man at 600 yards with a b/p rifle with minimalist iron sights is very humbling indeed!
The Confederate sniper was actually a better shot than the Union sniper. Southern sharpshooters shot and killed twice as many Union soldiers as Union sharpshooters killed Southern soldiers.
You guys did no research at all about this , truly shameful. Jack declined to enter the war until Union soldiers beheaded his sons that were out hunting squirrels and hung their heads on his fence.
PLEASE GO OUT... BUT EVERYONE GO OUT IN THE STREET... GRANDPARENTS... YOUNG PEOPLE.... CHILDREN.... EVERYONE.... GO OUT EVERY YEAR ON NATIONAL RIFLE DAY WITH THE PILLOWS TO THE STREET...GIVE PILLOWS THAT DAY...TO THE SENATORS...TO THE CONGRESSMEN, TO THE POLICE OFFICERS...TO THE LAWYERS....TO THE NEIGHBOR...TO THE FAMILY MEMBERS. YOUR PILLOWS....DECLARE THAT DAY THE DAY OF FRIENDSHIP....AND MAKE A PILLOW WAR...PLEASE....ALSO INVITE PUTIN AND HIS FRIENDS TO PARTICIPATE AND...BE HAPPY AND LET US LIVE IN PEACE TO OTHERS...I REPEAT....LET US LIVE IN PEACE TO OTHERS....THE DAY OF THE RIFLE WOULD HAVE ITS COUNTED DAYS.
It was a war of Southern Aggression. January 3, 1861 Gov. A.B. Moore ordered Alabama troops to seize three federal installations in the state - the arsenal at Mount Vernon, and Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines. Louisiana State Militia forces seized the powder magazine in Baton Rouge, LA and rest of the arsenal on January 10, 1861. January 24th 1861 Georgia militia siezed Augusta Arsena
