Name not reported

According to an 1871 investigation reported in The Working Christian and the Yorkville Enquirer, several hundred Ku-Klux Klan members acting under military organization took ten Black people from the jail at Unionville, South Carolina, and killed them. The congressional sub-committee's findings, as the Washington Chronicle reported them, are the source of this account. The reports name none of the victims.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The investigating committee, as reported, says a Ku-Klux mob took the victim from the Unionville jail and killed him.

Reported by: the investigating committee (as reported in the 1871 article) (outside investigators).

Sources (2)

• Yorkville Enquirer, August 3, 1871, page 3 Yorkville Enquirer, August 3, 1871
• The Working Christian, August 10, 1871, page 1 The Working Christian, August 10, 1871