Name not reported
One of the Harmon brothers, a Union man from Greene County, Tennessee, was held in the local jail during the Civil War. Governor Brownlow told the Tennessee Legislature that Confederate authorities took him from the jail and hanged him, and said he had seen the men led to the place of execution. Brownlow described the Harmon men as honest and respectable and said their families were left destitute, with widows and children who had no pension to rely on. The account gives no exact date for the death.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. Governor Brownlow, in his message to the Tennessee Legislature, says the Harmon brother was hanged after being taken from the local jail.
Reported by: Governor Brownlow, in his message to the Tennessee Legislature.