Richard J. Hinton

Richard Josiah Hinton (November 26, 1830 – 1901) was a journalist, author, abolitionist, officer with the rank of Colonel commanding African-American soldiers in the American Civil War, Freedmens Bureau official, and U.S. government official. An immigrant from England, he became an important witness to events leading to the Civil War and its aftermath. He was an abolitionist who moved to Kansas in 1856 to help stop the spread of slavery. As the Civil War started he helped recruit "colored" Union army units and served as an officer of one.[1][2] He wrote about Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, and poet Richard Realf.

He came to the United States in 1851. He reported from Haiti for James Redpath's Pine and Palm newspaper. He served as an officer with the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry Regiment in 1862 and then as captain of Company B, 2nd Kansas Colored Regiment. In 1900 he wrote "I am glad also I was able to do other work, both as writer and fighter, in a small way, and, among Kansas soldiers, and many others by far more important than myself, to make the union secure and the whole of the state free from the curse of chattelism." The Kansas Historical Society has a collection of his papers.[3]

Books

He wrote:

  • The Life and Public Services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, of Illinois, and Hon. Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine (with Lincoln's speeches); Thayer and Eldridge, Boston (1860)[4]
  • English radical leaders G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York (1877).
  • The hand-book to Arizona : its resources, history, towns, mines, ruins and scenery Payot, Upham & co. in San Francisco; American news co. in New York (1878).
  • John Brown and His Men: With Some Account of the Roads They Traveled to Reach Harpers Ferry (1894).
  • The life of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan : its romance and reality : how an humble lad reached the head of an army ... and graphic sketches of other great cavalry leaders / G. W. Lyon, Cedar Rapids Iowa, (c1889) with Frank A. Burr.
  • "Little Phil" and his troopers : the life of Gen. Philip H. Sheridan : its romance and reality, how an humble lad reached the head of an army ... J.A. & R.A. Reid, Providence, Rhode Island (1888).
  • Report on Irrigation (1893) U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • Richard Realf's Free-state poems : with personal lyrics written in Kansas Crane & Company, publishers, Topeka, Kansas (1900), with Richard Realf and William Elsey Connelley.[4]

References
  1. "Hinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah), 1830-1901 - Social Networks and Archival Context". snaccooperative.org.
  2. "Richard Josiah Hinton - Kansas Memory". www.kansasmemory.org.
  3. "Richard Josiah Hinton papers - State Archives - Kansas Historical Society". www.kshs.org.
  4. "Richard J. Hinton (Hinton, Richard J. (Richard Josiah), 1830-1901) | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.
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