Thomas Carmichael Hindman, Jr.

(January 28, 1828 September 27, 1868) was a United States

Representative from Arkansas before serving as a major general in the Confederate States Army during
the American Civil War. During the MexicanAmerican War, he became a captain of his company. He
was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1854 to 1856, and a Democratic
representative in the Thirty-sixth Congress from 1859 to 1861. Despite being re-elected, he declined to
serve after Arkansas seceded from the Union. Instead, Hindman joined the armed forces of the
Confederacy. He was promoted to brigadier general in September 1861 and to major general the
following April. He commanded the Trans-Mississippi Department, and later raised and commanded
"Hindman's legion". After the war, he avoided surrender to the federal government by fleeing to Mexico
City. He worked in Mexico as a coffee planter, and attempted to practice law. After returning to
Arkansas, Hindman was murdered at his home by an unknown assailant in 1868.