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Civil War Soldiers - Hindman

HINDMAN, THOMAS C., Arkansas.
Colonel, Second Arkansas Infantry, June 21, 1861.
Brigadier general, P. A. C. S., September 28, 1861.
Major general, P. A. C. S., April 14, 1862.
Died at Helena, Ark., September 28, 1889.

Commands.
Brigade composed of the First, Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Arkansas Regiments Infantry, Army of the West.  Division composed of the brigades of Deas, Walthall, Manigault and Anderson, Polk's Corps, Army of Tennessee. Subsequently division composed of the brigades of Tucker, Deas, Manigault and Walthall, Army of Tennessee. Commanding Trans-Mississippi District, Department No. 2, May 26, 1862. Commanding army corps composed of divisions of Hindman, Breckinridge and Stewart, Army of Tennessee. Commanding District of Arkansas, August and September, 1862. Commanding Second Corps, Army of Tennessee, December 15, 1863, to February 25, 1864.

Hindman, Thomas Carmichael, born in Tennessee, appointed from Tennessee.
Ensign, Thirty-ninth Infantry, July 29, 1813.
Third lieutenant, January 11, 1814.
Second lieutenant, May 20, 1814.
Regimental adjutant, May 14 to June 15; transferred to First Infantry, May 17, 1815.
Regimental quartermaster, June 1 to March 31, 1816; transferred to Eighth Infantry, May 8, 1816.
Resigned June 30, 1816.

Source: Military Records of General Officers of the Confederate States of America, by Charles B. Hall, 1898
 


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