J. C. Hann
According to William G. Brownlow, J. C. Hann was a young man of excellent character who left a wife and four helpless children, and a Chicago Tribune correspondent put the number of children at four or five. In 1862 Hann was taken from the jail where Brownlow was being held and hanged by captors, and Brownlow said they came each morning with coffins while the other prisoners did not know who would be taken next. The Tribune correspondent wrote that Hann was taken out of jail and placed on the scaffold, and that his request for a Methodist preacher to pray with him was refused. Brownlow said Hann's wife was seen hoeing corn to feed her starving children.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Chicago Daily Tribune correspondent says J. C. Haun was taken from jail, placed on a scaffold and hanged, and that a request for a Methodist preacher to pray with him was refused; William G. Brownlow, in a reported speech, says Hann was taken from the jail where Brownlow was held and hanged.
Reported by: Chicago Daily Tribune correspondent (reporters); William G. Brownlow.