Jack Hinson's One Man War -Tom C. McKenney

Jack Hinson never planned to become a deadly sniper.

A prosperous and influential Kentucky plantation owner in the 1850s, Hinson was devoted to raising his growing family and working his land. Yet by 1865, Hinson had likely killed more than one hundred men and had single-handedly taken down an armed Union transport in his one man war against Grant's army and navy.

By the end of the Civil War, the Union had committed infantry and cavalry from nine regiments and a specially equipped amphibious task force of marines to capture Hinson, who was by that time nearly sixty years old.

They never caught him.

John S. "Old Jack" Hinson watched the start of the Civil War with impartial disinterest. A friend of Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate officers alike, Hinson was opposed to secession, focused instead on his personal affairs.

After a unit of Union occupation troops moved in on his land and summarily captured, executed, and placed the decapitated heads of his sons on his gateposts, however, Hinson abandoned his quiet life for one of revenge.

A biography of Lt. Col. Tom C. McKenney a lone Confederate sniper equipped with a rifle he had specially made for long-range accuracy, Hinson became a deadly gadfly to the occupying army.


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