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Hindman, Thomas Carmichael 1818-

Military officer; born in Tennessee, in November, 1818; served in the war with Mexico; was member of Congress from 1859 to 1861, and of the Charleston convention in 1860. He became a brigadier-general in the Confederate army, and was the chief leader of Confederate troops in Arkansas. After the battle of Shiloh (q. v.), in which he participated, he was made a major-general. He was in command of a division in Polk's corps at Chickamauga. After the fall of the Confederacy, he went to Mexico, and returned to Helena in the spring of 1867, where he was murdered by one of his former soldiers, Sept. 27, 1868.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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