July 8, 1876 - The Hamburg Massacre occurred in Hamburg, South Carolina, a defunct market town across the river from Augusta, Georgia which had been repopulated by freed blacks. Hundreds of armed white men attacked a m...ilitia of free black men, killing six and looting the town. The official report on the massacre, published four days later, stated “the facts show the demand on the militia to give up their arms was made by persons without lawful authority to enforce such demand or to receive the arms had they been surrendered; that the attack on the militia to compel a compliance with this demand was without lawful excuse or justification; and that after there had been some twenty or twenty-five prisoners captured and completely in the power of their captors, five of them were deliberately shot to death and three more severely wounded. It further appears that not content with thus satisfying their vengeance, many of the crowd added to their guilt the crime of robbery of defenseless people, and were only prevented from arson by the efforts of their leaders.” Despite the report, nobody was ever convicted for their involvement