The last paragraph is especially poignant in our current circumstance:
RW: Did Jack Hinson teach you anything and is there anything in particular you'd like for readers to learn from the story?
Tom McKenney: The Jack Hinson story includes at least three important lessons in life:
1. It takes two to make peace, but only one to make a fight; he didn't want the war, but the war came to him.
2. A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city (Prov 18:19). The bitterest enemies are friends whom we have betrayed.
3. Vengeance has a high price. It cost him at least 6 of his children, his plantation, businesses, and life as he had known it before the war.
Additionally, in a military sense, guerrilla warfare works. By the end of the war, the Union had committed elements of 9 regiments and an amphibious task force of Marines against that one old man, and they never got him.
RW: Thank you Colonel.