Name not reported
Ten Black people were taken from the jail at Unionville, South Carolina, by several hundred Ku-Klux Klan members and killed, according to an investigation by a congressional sub-committee as reported in the Washington Chronicle and the Yorkville Enquirer. The Working Christian, citing the same investigation, says the group acted under military organization. The killings were reported in 1871, and the sources identify each of the ten only as a Black person held at the jail.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The investigating committee, as reported, says a Ku-Klux mob took ten Black people from the Unionville jail and killed them.
Reported by: the investigating committee (as reported in the 1871 article) (outside investigators).