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Smallpox Killed Elmira POW

by | Mar 23, 2015 | Confederate affiliation, Robeson

James McKay Suggs was a private in the Confederate army, serving with the 36th North Carolina, Co. H. James died of smallpox while imprisoned at Elmira, N.Y.

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