Christopher Haun

Released
Date of birth:September 1821
Date of death:11. 12. 1861
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1800s
State:Tennessee
Time Imprisoned:
1 Month
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Christopher Haun

Biography

Christopher Haun was a well-known Greene County potter. Christopher Haun was among the East Tennessee Unionists who burned Confederate railroad bridges in the November 1861 uprising. Captured and condemned under the order to hang bridge burners, he was executed at Knoxville, Tennessee, on 11 December 1861. (Recorded as Christopher Alexander Haun)

Case

Knox County Jail
Charges: Took part in the East Tennessee bridge-burning uprising of November 1861 against the Confederacy.
Incarcerated: November 1861
Released: Dec 11, 1861
Sentence: Hanged at Knoxville, Tennessee, on 11 December 1861.
Institution State: Tennessee

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