Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a Washington Chronicle dispatch reprinted in the Alexandria Gazette in January 1871, a Black man held in the jail at Union, South Carolina, was taken from it by a mob and killed. The dispatch reported that he was one of six men taken from the jail and killed in this way.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Washington Chronicle dispatch (reporters).