Henry Harmon

Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1800s
State:Tennessee
Time Imprisoned:
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Biography

Henry Harmon, a son of Jacob M. Harmon, joined his father and other East Tennessee Unionists in the November 1861 bridge-burning uprising against the Confederacy. Captured and condemned under the order to hang bridge burners, he was executed at Knoxville, Tennessee, in December 1861, shortly after his father was hanged at Greeneville.

Case

Knox County Jail
Charges: Took part in the East Tennessee bridge-burning uprising of November 1861 against the Confederacy.
Incarcerated: November 1861
Released: December 1861
Sentence: Hanged at Knoxville, Tennessee, in December 1861.
Convicted: Tried by Confederate military authority and sentenced to hang, 1861
Institution State: Tennessee

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