Hindman, Thomas Carmichael

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Thomas Carmichael Hindman
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Siblings
    5
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    5
    Family
    Thomas Hindman (father), Sallie Holt Hindman (mother), Mary Watkins Biscoe (wife)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Classical Institute, Lawrenceville, NJ
    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Attorney or Judge
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    US House of Representatives
    State legislature
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)
    Confederate Army

    Thomas Carmichael Hindman (Congressional Biographical Dictionary)

    Reference
    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.
    “Hindman, Thomas Carmichael,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H000628.
    How to Cite This Page: "Hindman, Thomas Carmichael," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5901.