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File Name	shades_haun_0002
Creator	Richardson and Cox, engravers
Title	Hanging of Fry and Hensie near the Railroad, by Colonel Leadbetter
Date	1862
Genre	Engravings
Material/Technique	wood engraving
Image Note	William G. Brownlow, Sketches of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of Secession; with a Narrative of Personal Adventures Among the Rebels (Philadelphia: George W. Childs, Applegate & Co., 1862), p. 311
Description	Two men clad in shirts and trousers hang by ropes from tree branches. They are taunted by a man with a cane standing on a train platform next to a rail car while people watch from the platform and peer out of the rail car windows.
Historical note	Henry Fry and Jacob M. Hensie (Hinshaw) were among a group of five Union loyalists in East Tennessee who attempted to disrupt Confederate troop movements by destroying bridges along the East Tennessee & Virginia and East Tennessee & Georgia railroad lines on the night of November 8-9, 1861. The "bridge burners" who believed they had the support of the Lincoln administration and that the United States Army was about to sweep into in East Tennessee and liberate it from Confederate authorities, were executed for their actions. Master potter Christopher A. Haun, who was also among their number, was hanged in Knoxville on 10 December 1861.
Subject	nited States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Destruction and Pillage--Union
Theme	Walking a Fine Line
Story	Christopher Haun
Geographic Location	United States--Tennessee--Greeneville; United States--Tennessee--Knoxville
Time period	1860-1869
Credit line	Wikimedia Commons
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Source	George W. Childs, Applegate & Co., Philadelphia
Archival file	shades11/shades_haun_0002.jpg