Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
A Black man held in the jail at Pulaski, Tennessee, was taken from the jail by a mob and killed, according to a report in The New Orleans Crescent published in July 1868. The report gives no name for him. The account also gives no date for the killing.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The New Orleans Crescent reported that a mob took a man from the jail in Pulaski, Tennessee, and killed him.
Reported by: The New Orleans Crescent (reporters).