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Citation Information

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For example, if you performed a search on diary entries from Franklin County and wanted to reference a specific diary, the appropriate citation would be:

Franklin County: Diary of J. Kelly Bennette (1864), Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War (https://valley.newamericanhistory.org/diaries/FD4500).