James Dinkins [5759]

  General Notes:

Son of Alexander. H. Dinkins and Cynthia Springs Dinkins ²

  Noted events in his life were:

• He was educated at North Carolina Military Institute after 1860 in Charlotte, North Carolina. ² Daniel Harvey Hill (1821-1889) founded the North Carolina Military Institute basing its academic and disciplinary structures on the West Point model; however, the start of the Civil War necessitated the faculty and pupils to take up arms.

• He served in the military Private, Co C, 18th Mississippi Regiment 1861 to 9 Apr 1863 in Mississippi. ²

• He served in the military 1st Lt, Calvalry, CSA on 9 Apr 1863 in Mississippi. ²

• He served in the military Aide-de-Camp to Gen James R. Chalmers Oct 1863 to 15 Dec 1864 in Mississippi. ²

• He served in the military Capt, commander C Co., 18th Mississippi Calvary on 15 Dec 1864 in Mississippi. ²

• Author: "1861 to 1865, by an Old Johnnie", 1897, Mississippi. ² His experiences and recollections of the Confederate War.

• Author: "Forrest and His Cavalry", Cir 1900, Mississippi. ²

• Author: The Capture of Memphis by Gen Nathan B Forrest, 15 Dec 1901. Read at seventeenth annual reunion, Louisiana Division United Confederate Veterans, Monroe, Southern Historical Papers, see pg 180-196

• Author: "The Southern Girl", 1902, Mississippi. ²

• Author: Balaclava of America: reminiscences of the battle of Franklin, November 30th, 1864, 1903. with Stephen Dill Lee, publisher New Orleans Picoyune, 1903, 16 pages

• Author: Barksdale's Mississippi Brigade at Fredericksburg, Oct 1908. Read at seventeenth annual reunion, Louisiana Division United Confederate Veterans, Monroe, printed by the Picayune Job Print., 1908 see pg 17-25

• Author: The Negroes as Slaves, 1907. Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 35 (1907), p. 60

• Author: Boy Soldiers, 1907. Southern Historical Society Papers, Vol. 35 (1907), p. 108-109

• Author: Address on Jefferson Davis Day, Cir 1910. with J. A. Hackett, John Franklin Simmons, Publisher Picayune Job Print., 191?, 10 pages

• He worked as an Agent, New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad in 1874 in Canton, Mississippi. ⁴

• He worked as an Agent, Illinois Central Railroad in 1891 in Aberdeen, Mississippi. ⁴

• He was buried at the Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana in 1939. ³ Tomb has marble dogs "guarding" it.

James married Susan Emeline Hart [5758] [MRIN: 2169], daughter of Capt. John Drew Hart [5746] and Sophia Emmeline Smith [3912], on 15 Nov 1866 in Canton, Mississippi.^{1 2} (Susan Emeline Hart [5758] was born on 17 Apr 1844 in Virgina ^{1 2}.)

  Marriage Notes:

Children:
Lynn Hamilton Dinkins F 15 Aug 1867 in Canton, Mississippi
Mariam Cynthia Dinkins F 6 Dec 1870 in Canton, Mississippi
Earl Jeffery Dinkins M 3 Feb 1887 in Canton, Mississippi