Gibson Co., Tenn. (1874)
8/26/1874: Sixteen men were arrested for threatening “to arm
themselves to resist the Ku Klux.” A
masked mob removed them from the jail, “murdered four of them, mortally maimed
two, and removed the other ten, of whom nothing has been heard….”
Category: lynching
Suicide: no
Cause: terrorism
Weapon: unknown[1]
[1] “Mass
Meeting Tonight,” [Memphis, Tenn.] Aug. 28, 1874, 3 (quoting the governor’s
proclamation about this incident); “The Gibson County Horror,” Jackson [Ohio] Standard, Sep. 10, 1874, 1.
Do you have a link that isn't a file on your C drive?
ReplyDeleteSorry, just noticed that the footnotes seems like a reference to my hard drive. I will start including links to the newspaper.
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