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This doesn't ring true at all, yet posted as history. The Union soldiers were not this undisciplined or cruel. The idea of killing, chopping off heads, parading bodies around town? What is this "Game of Thrones"? See http://civilwarnovels.com/book-reviews/jack-hinsons-one-man-war-a-civil-war-sniper/ where this story is presented as weaving fact and fiction, and is reviewed and sold as a novel. Is there real documentation of the actions of the Union soldiers instead of hyperbole? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timcera (talk • contribs) 17:53, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Major changes to the storyline

Hi, the story i read is quite different: They say he was a successful farmer, he did not want to get involved in the secession war and did not allow his two sons to get involved in it, he was neutral and did it. During winter 1862 while Ulysses Gran was taking his army and his cannon-boats to Ft Donelson, along Cumberland river, he offered his experience, as a witness, to both armies, he was not belligerent up until then, still working for not being involved on any side. The war in the middle Tennessee then created several outlaws, guerrillas, smugglers, ravaging local population and North army. One awful day both Hinson's sons gout out for hunting for deer, During that they got catched by the Union troops, noticing they had rifles, they got arrested and executed as suspected outlaws; as they where identified as Hindson sons the captain and lieutenant installed both decapitated heads "impaled" on Jack's front gates. After burying his sons John liberated his slaves and planned his revenge, moved west, in order to do it he had supervised the creation of a special rifle, weighting 17 pounds, requiring a pedestal or a log in order to keep it properly aligned, it was able to shoot long range a .50 caliper, using a barrel longer than Kentucky model, with a sensitive trigger (there is a picture of that gun with 36 marks on it possibly created after each time he took down a graduated). With that rifle he killed every blue uniform Yankee he met, starting with the lieutenant that was so excited about impaling his sons heads, and as second the captain who gave that order. That was just the beginning, Jack camped on the woody Tennessee hills, close to Tennessee river, he went hiding on a river branch called "Towhead chute" and from the woods or rocks in there he killed the captains of the Union cannon-boats at half a mile distance, reports tell about 80 killings, ranking him on the top killer for that war (he did not made as many marks on his rifle, possibly because marks where for specific-level killing). In a special episode, a captain of a convoy of soldiers (with weapons) took out white flag assuming to be under attack of a whole army. Hindson that time flew away, The sad irony of this man, who was faced with a wrong decision by the army. He got extremely angry, and there is no doubt he had major reasons for his anger.

Hope you can confirm this richer version — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lucaaah~enwiki (talk • contribs) 02:25, 6 January 2020 (UTC)

This has been a persistent Lost Cause embellishment. It has been used as an example of "both sides did bad." It needs to stop.Hhfjbaker (talk) 18:48, 2 January 2021 (UTC)