In the city cemetery of Newberry, S.C., is a well-tended grave of a Texas soldier. Rather than rehash the story, which received wide coverage, I will quote the language on the four sides of the marker:

West Side
"Calvin S. Crozier, born Brandon, Miss., Aug. 1840; murdered at Newberry, S.C. Sept. 8, 1865"

South Side
"After the surrender of the Confederate armies, while on the way to his home in Texas from a Federal prison, he was called upon at the railroad station at Newberry, S.C., on the night of Sept. 7, 1865, to protect a young white woman temporarily under his charge from gross insults offered by a Negro Federal soldier of the garrison stationed there."

East Side
"A difficulty ensued in which the Negro was slightly cut. The infuriated soldiers seized a citizen of Newberry, upon whom they were about to excecute savage revenge, when Crozier came promptly forward and avowed his own responsibility for the deed, thus refusing to accept safety from allowing a stranger to receive the violence intended for himself."

North Side
"He was hurried in the night time to the bivouac of the regiment to which the soldier belonged, was ekpt under guard all night, was not allowed communication with any citizen, was condemned to die without even the form of a trial, and was shot to death about daylight the following morning and his body mutilated."

I have seen contemporary accounts of the affair, and in those there is the hint that the soldier was attmepting an assualt on the young lady, although the most recent county history does not so state. The soldiers nor their superiors were not punished or chastised in any way for what amounted to a lynching, pure and simple.