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Charles Pollard Wood died on July 11, 1898, while training at Camp George H. Thomas in Chickamauga, Georgia. He was a Sergeant in Company A, 2nd Missouri Infantry of Carthage, the community's "War Correspondent" for southwest Missouri, and the only person to lie in state in the Jasper County Courthouse. A local Spanish American War Veterans Camp and flag carried his name.
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Carthage, Missouri · United States
