In the fall of 1862, a detachment of Federal cavalry scoured the countryside surrounding the recently conquered Confederate Fort Donelson in search of guerillas antagonizing Federal operations in the area. Two of the men they encountered, brothers John and George Hinson, had already been connected to spying, leading Federals to believe they were once again involved. Ignoring their vows of innocence, the Federals tied them to trees, shot them, decapitated them with a sword, and placed their heads on the gateposts in front of the Hinson homestead. Upon learning of his sons’ fates, John “Jack” Hinson devised a plan for vengeance. Too old to join the Confederate army at age 57, Hinson contracted a local gunsmith to build a custom sniper rifle. The resulting .50 caliber caplock rifle had a 41-inch long, heavy octagonal barrel, and an overall weight of 18 pounds; it required support by a tree limb or some other rest when firing. Hinson paid numerous visits to Dover and the area surrounding the Federally occupied Fort Donelson, learning the routines of the soldiers and gathering other intelligence. He also scouted out tactical positions overlooking the river from which he could carry out his intentions. When he felt he had sufficiently studied his enemy,
Hinson set his plan in motion. In the spring of 1863, Hinson ambushed and killed the man responsible for issuing the order to murder his sons and the sergeant responsible for placing their heads on the gateposts. Initially, Hinson believed he had extracted his pound of flesh and put his gun away, but when Federal troops burned the Hinson home, he found his gun and went back to work. From a ridge overlooking the Tennessee River, Hinson sniped Federal officers on the decks of ships struggling to power through the surging currents of the Towhead Chute. With each kill, Hinson made a mark on the gun, and by the end of the war, it totaled 36 kills. Historians estimate the total number of kills to be even higher than this, totaling between 80 and 100 kills.
Anyone got any other cool historical stories of revenge
>>17780258Actually he had seven children total and never faced punishment for his actions and lived a normal life after the war.
>>17780061>Historians estimate the total number of kills to be even higher than this, totaling between 80 and 100 kills.How? Insane, if real. The yankoid fears rightful vengeance.
Another thing I want to know, how did he find out who issued the order? And how did they know he was the sniper? How are these things found out in wartime?
>>17780060 (OP)What I would give for the opportunity to manhandle Hinson's rifle
>>17780407Jews trying to coopt the US South is cringe. Goes to show how judaised america is and how it was always doomed to disaster.
>>17780453>memeNo, it isn't. It's an actual jew trying to sow divide between White Nationalist states and portray a philosemitic angle to one of them.
>>17780403Here's a good book, I'm sure you can find a pdf of it.
>>17780403>Another thing I want to know, how did he find out who issued the order? And how did they know he was the sniper? How are these things found out in wartime?I assume when they killed his sons and put up the display they went out of their way to make a show of it in an attempt at deterrence, this backfired clearly.
>>17780481I've been wondering for years how this information crosses sides in war. Like how did the British know so much about German Army divisions in WWII that they could class them based on combat effectiveness, for instance? How would they even know the designation? The commander? The fighting ability? It's unimaginable to me. I'm sure that information would be encrypted and the common soldiery captured wouldn't know enough.
>>17780512Because the common perception of war as being black and white "us vs them" with no contact between civilians and clear cut lines and boundaries doesn't and has never, reflected the reality of war.
In a real war, the lines are fuzzy and porous. People talk, people move around, people observe and pass on information. Joe Smith the dairy farmer might observe one army performing maneuvers in his fields and then go talk with the other farmers at the local tavern, one of whom then reports what he heard to the commander of the other army. A dozen or more such incidents and you have a pretty good idea of the size and strength of the enemy army. None of that even touches on common enlisted soldiers talking with civilians or vice versa and distributing information that way. Hell, in the Civil War, news printers went out of their way to print battle plans and troop dispositions even of their own fucking side. Grant had to ban journalists from his camps multiple times because they would over hear some drunk Colonel spilling the entire armies battle plans at the camp fire and then they would print that shit in the next morning's paper. Lee famously never told anyone except his top most trusted Generals his actual full plans specifically because he wanted to prevent word of mouth information about his plans and resources getting to the enemy.
>>17780061>white nigger shoots innocent soldiers like fish in a barrel Why are dixoids always such fucking cucks?
>>17781242>innocentThe eternal Yank*id cries out in pain as he murders your Sons and burns down your home
>>17780061The Mori Clan of Aki Province (worth 1 million koku, or enough rice to feed 1 million people) were promised rewards if they sat out the Battle of Sekigahara and left Tokugawa Ieyasu roflstomp Mitsunari. They also gave up Osaka Castle, the strongest fortification in Western Japan, without a fight. Despite that, the Tokugawa bitch slapped the Mori, taking away their ancestral home province of Aki and moving them to Choshu Domain next door, worth about 300,000 koku.
>This was seen as a great act of betrayal to the Mōri clan, and Chōshū later became a hotbed of anti-Tokugawa activities. The origins of this were evident in the tradition of the clan's New Year's meeting. Every year during the meeting, the elders and the administrators would ask the daimyo whether the time to overthrow the shogunate had come, to which the daimyo would reply: "Not yet, the shogunate is still too powerful."Eventually they'd overthrow the Shogunate during the Boshin War, so that's pretty cool.
>>17781367>B... bb.. but the LAW saysBootlicking ass kissing faggot. As expected of a Big Daddy Gov't retard.
You aren't American, you don't deserve to live on this land, you are a spiritual kike and I loathe you.
>>17780481Killed two guerillas and created one so it's a net gain
>>17781315Daily reminder that all civilian massacres during the civil war were prosecuted by Confederates.
>>17780407confederates would have allied with the nazis
>>17781425You're jewish. Or, maybe, you actually are "White" by american standards, and doing your patriotic duty of philosemitism.
