Died in jail or a lockup
Name not reported
Thirteen people held in a Louisiana jail were taken out and shot by an armed group during the violence around the 1868 presidential election, according to a partisan political article printed in the Watertown Republican in 1876. The article attributes the killings to the Ku Klux Klan, and its account is the only one in the sources. None of the thirteen is named, and the parish name is garbled in the text.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The Watertown Republican, writing in 1876, says an armed group took thirteen captives from a Louisiana parish jail during the 1868 election violence and shot them, blaming the Ku Klux Klan.
Reported by: Watertown Republican (reporters).