Served on General Staff, Confederate Army, Civil War
Father
Alexander Hamilton Dinkins
Mother
Cynthia Dinkins Springs Dinkins
Wife
Sue Emeline Hart Dinkins
Married 15 Nov 1866 Madison, Mississippi, USA
There exists video footage of Capt. James Dinkins doing the Rebel Yell, at a Confederate Veterans Reunion. Here: Rebel Yell
Thanks to member Dwayne Sessom (#46856572) for the link.
"James Dinkins, the oldest child of Cynthia and Alexander was sent by his parents to Charlotte, North Carolina Military Institute. He reached there very near his fifteenth birthday He entered the Confederate Army when he was barely sixteen years of age, was in the first battle of the war and almost the last. James was officially listed as the youngest officer of the Confederate Army in the War Between the States. After the war he became banker in New Orleans, Louisiana. He died July 19, 1939, 94 years old."
Above information provided by member Sharon Rish King (#48586086)
Father
Alexander Hamilton Dinkins
Mother
Cynthia Dinkins Springs Dinkins
Wife
Sue Emeline Hart Dinkins
Married 15 Nov 1866 Madison, Mississippi, USA
There exists video footage of Capt. James Dinkins doing the Rebel Yell, at a Confederate Veterans Reunion. Here: Rebel Yell
Thanks to member Dwayne Sessom (#46856572) for the link.
"James Dinkins, the oldest child of Cynthia and Alexander was sent by his parents to Charlotte, North Carolina Military Institute. He reached there very near his fifteenth birthday He entered the Confederate Army when he was barely sixteen years of age, was in the first battle of the war and almost the last. James was officially listed as the youngest officer of the Confederate Army in the War Between the States. After the war he became banker in New Orleans, Louisiana. He died July 19, 1939, 94 years old."
Above information provided by member Sharon Rish King (#48586086)
Served on General Staff, Confederate Army, Civil War
Father
Alexander Hamilton Dinkins
Mother
Cynthia Dinkins Springs Dinkins
Wife
Sue Emeline Hart Dinkins
Married 15 Nov 1866 Madison, Mississippi, USA
There exists video footage of Capt. James Dinkins doing the Rebel Yell, at a Confederate Veterans Reunion. Here: Rebel Yell
Thanks to member Dwayne Sessom (#46856572) for the link.
"James Dinkins, the oldest child of Cynthia and Alexander was sent by his parents to Charlotte, North Carolina Military Institute. He reached there very near his fifteenth birthday He entered the Confederate Army when he was barely sixteen years of age, was in the first battle of the war and almost the last. James was officially listed as the youngest officer of the Confederate Army in the War Between the States. After the war he became banker in New Orleans, Louisiana. He died July 19, 1939, 94 years old."
Above information provided by member Sharon Rish King (#48586086)
Father
Alexander Hamilton Dinkins
Mother
Cynthia Dinkins Springs Dinkins
Wife
Sue Emeline Hart Dinkins
Married 15 Nov 1866 Madison, Mississippi, USA
There exists video footage of Capt. James Dinkins doing the Rebel Yell, at a Confederate Veterans Reunion. Here: Rebel Yell
Thanks to member Dwayne Sessom (#46856572) for the link.
"James Dinkins, the oldest child of Cynthia and Alexander was sent by his parents to Charlotte, North Carolina Military Institute. He reached there very near his fifteenth birthday He entered the Confederate Army when he was barely sixteen years of age, was in the first battle of the war and almost the last. James was officially listed as the youngest officer of the Confederate Army in the War Between the States. After the war he became banker in New Orleans, Louisiana. He died July 19, 1939, 94 years old."
Above information provided by member Sharon Rish King (#48586086)
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