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|title=United States, Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865}} <br> | |title=United States, Civil War Confederate Papers of Citizens or Businesses, 1861-1865}} <br> | ||
== Record Description == | == Record Description == | ||
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=== Citation for This Collection === | === Citation for This Collection === | ||
The following citation refers to the original source of the | The following citation refers to the original source of the information published in FamilySearch.org Historical Record collections. Sources include the author, custodian, publisher and archive for the original records. | ||
{{Collection citation| text =<!--bibdescbegin-->"The Citizens File of Confederate Papers." Fold3.com. http://www.fold3.com : 2012. <!--bibdescend-->}} | {{Collection citation| text =<!--bibdescbegin-->"The Citizens File of Confederate Papers." Fold3.com. http://www.fold3.com : 2012. <!--bibdescend-->}} | ||
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