Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
According to a dispatch the Washington Chronicle published and the Alexandria Gazette reprinted in January 1871, a mob took six men from the jail in Union, South Carolina, and killed them. One of these men was a Black man, but the account gives no name, age, or date for him. The dispatch does not say whether jail officers resisted the mob or handed the men over.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Washington Chronicle dispatch (reporters).