Edward Winslow Hinks was a career United States Army officer who served as a brigadier general during the American Civil War.
Hinks was born in Bucksport, Maine. His name was originally spelled Hincks but deleted the C when he joined the U.S. Army in 1861 and resumed using the original spelling in 1871 after he retired from the service. He was a printer for the Whig and Courier newspaper in Bangor, Maine. He moved to Massachusetts in 1849 and served in the state legislature.
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