Hinds, Cameron Howell, 1808-1868

Cameron "Howell" Hinds was a planter, Mississippi state Representative, and a 1st Lieutenant in the Confederate Army.

Born in 1808 in Jefferson County, Mississippi, Hinds was a planter and enslaver living in Jefferson County, Mississippi by 1836, and in 1852, he served a term as state Representative for Jefferson County. During the Civil War, he served as a First Lieutenant in the Jefferson Flying Artillery Battery, serving the Confederate Army. In 1863, during the Gettysburg campaign, he was wounded in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.

After the Civil War, Hinds moved to Greenville, Mississippi. Hinds was married to Mary Ann (Coleman) Hinds, with whom he had at least five children, including two sons who lived to adulthood. In an attempt to stop a pistol duel between two friends, Hinds died on May 13, 1868 in Greenville, Mississippi. He was buried in the Greenville Cemetery.

(FindaGrave; U.S. Census Record for Jefferson County, Mississippi, 1850; U.S. Census Record for Jefferson County, Mississippi, 1860; The Mississippi Free Trader, December 13, 1836; Howell Hinds to Mississippi Governor Benjamin G. Humphries, July 24, 1866, Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi, mdah_779-963-09-15)

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Letter from Howell Hines to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; May 14, 1861

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Howell Hines in Jefferson County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus concerning an alleged insurrection by enslaved people in the area.

Letter from Howell Hinds to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; November 2, 1861

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Howell Hinds in Bowling Green, Kentucky, listing men who refused to be mustered into the Confederate Jefferson Flying Artillery.

Letter to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; April 17, 1862

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter signed "A True Southern Girl" from Attala County, Mississippi, giving a list of Union men in Attala County.

Letter from David Harrison to Mississippi Governor John Jones Pettus; May 5, 1862

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Fayette, Mississippi, concerning the need to keep some white men on local plantations.

Letter from Provost Marshal Howell Hinds to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 5, 1862

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Provost Marshal Howell Hinds in Fayette, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning a man placed in jail for making pro-Union statements.

Telegram from E. H. Hicks and George Torrey to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; May 6, 1862

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from E. H. Hicks and George Torrey in Fayette, Mississippi, asking that Howell Hinds be appointed Provost Marshal for Jefferson County, Mississippi.

Telegram from J. C. West to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 27, 1863

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from J. C. West at Fayette, Mississippi, asking Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus if the husband of Mrs. Howell Hinds of Wirt Adams Cavalry has been wounded.

Telegram from Mrs. Howell Hinds to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 29, 1863

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mrs. Howell Hinds in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, asking if Mr. Hinds is in Jackson, Mississippi, and how he is doing.

Telegram from Howell Hinds to Colonel S. G. French; May 25, 1861

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Howell Hinds to Colonel S. G. French in Jackson, Mississippi, asking if he can get tents.

List of charges from Southwestern Telegraph Company to Mississippi State Quartermaster Absolom M. West; May 1862

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. List of charges from the Southwestern Telegraph Company to Mississippi State Quartermaster Absolom M. West, for telegrams sent in May 1862.

List of charges from Southwestern Telegraph Company to Mississippi State Quartermaster Absolom M. West; May1862

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. List of charges from the Southwestern Telegraph Company to Mississippi State Quartermaster Absolom M. West, for telegrams sent in May 1862.

Letter from Howard Hinds to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; August 20, 1862

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Howard Hinds at Fayette, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus requesting information on where to send military stores.

Letter from H. Hines to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; September 8, 1862

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from H. Hines at Fayette, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus, concerning the need for provost marshals in the river counties.

Telegram from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to General Charles G. Dahlgren; Undated

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Telegram from Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus to Confederate General Charles Gustavus Dahlgren in Natchez, Mississippi, informing him an order had been sent to Howell Hinds to issue quartermaster stores.

Letter from Howell Hines to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 4, 1863

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Pettus Collection. Letter from Howell Hines at Home Hill Plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi, to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus asking that the Governor declare martial law in the county.

List; Undated

From the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Governor Ames Collection. List of Mississippians exempted from the amnesty proclamation of May 1865 but who were granted special presidential pardon.