Person

James Blythe Hynes (Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney and major (U.S.A.))

b. 1833-11-10 d. 1876-10-25

Vanderburgh County, Indiana, attorney and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Alfred M. Hynes and Mary Hynes. Married to Mary E. Jones Hynes in Indiana on September 1, 1858. Father of Florence Hynes and Alice Hynes. Attended school in Nelson County, Kentucky, from 1846 to 1850. Graduate of St. Joseph's Jesuit College in Nelson County in 1850. Read law with Jones & Blythe law firm in Nelson County from 1850 to 1855. Admitted to the bar in 1855. Attorney in partnership with John Jay Chandler in Vanderburgh County, Indiana, from 1857 to 1864. Prosecuting attorney for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit of Indiana from 1860 to 1862. Attorney in Vanderburgh County in 1863. United States Provost Marshal in Vanderburgh County from 1862 to 1864. Served in the 136th Indiana Infantry (U.S.A.) as a major and private in 1864. County court clerk in Vanderburgh County from 1864 to 1868.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 385A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Indiana,

Vanderburgh County, Evansville, District 7, p. 349B.

Indiana Marriage Records Index, 1801-1952, Indiana Archives and Record Administration, Vanderburgh County Circuit Court Clerk. Vanderburgh County, Indiana, Marriage Records, index A-J, 1811-2007, Genealogical Society of Utah, Film #7734045.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers Who Served in Organizations From the State of Indiana, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M540, Roll 0037.

Hynes, Blythe. Union Provost Marshal Citizens File, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M345, Roll 0139.

Simons, Jos. Union Provost Marshal Citizens File, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M345, Roll 0245.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Vanderburgh County, IN, June 1863.

Edward White and Robert Dale Owen, ed. Evansville and its Men of Mark, (Evansville: Historical Publishing Company, 1873), p. 206-207.

"James Blythe Hynes (1833-1876)," Find A Grave, Memorial 126786743, accessed May 3, 2023, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/126786743.

KYR-0001-006-0056.

Citation

Hynes, James Blythe. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32201436 (January 20, 2026).

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