Hinton enlisted as a private in Co. A of the 3rd VA Cavalry on May 14, 1861. In the summer of 1862 he was appointed a hospital steward, as he had attended medical school at the University of Virginia in 1860 and 1861 after leaving Randolph-Macon. In 1863, he was serving as a hospital steward in Atlanta, Georgia. By the summer of 1864, he was serving at the Blind School Hospital in Macon, GA. No further war record has been found.
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