Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man was one of six men reportedly taken from the jail in Union, South Carolina, by a mob and killed. A dispatch published by the Washington Chronicle and reprinted by the Alexandria Gazette in January 1871 is the source for the account. His name is not recorded in the report, and the date of the killings is not given. He was held at the Union jail when the mob took him.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched
Reported by: Washington Chronicle dispatch (reporters).