Hinche Parham Mabry (27 October 1829-21 March 1884) was a Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War.
Biography[]
Hinche Parham Mabry was born in Carroll County, Georgia in 1829, and he practiced law in Jefferson, Texas before serving in the state house in 1855-1856 and 1859-1860. On the outbreak of the American Civil War, he became a company commander in the 3rd Texas Cavalry Regiment, fighting at the Battle of Wilson's Creek and the Battle of Pea Ridge before being promoted to colonel. Mabry was captured at the Battle of Iuka in 1862 and released a year later, after which he rejoined his regiment and eventually assumed a brigade command in 1864. His brigade suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Tupelo, and he commanded the 3rd Texas until his surrender at Shreveport on 22 June 1865. After the war, he became a leader of the white supremacist Knights of the Rising Sun terror group in East Texas, inflicting violence on newly emancipated Blacks and Republicans. Mabry oversaw the lynching of Republican politician George Washington Smith in October 1868 and was never prosecuted for the murders. He died in 1884.