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State Library of Pennsylvania: Civil War diaries (1865)

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The 1865 volume is the fourth in a series of four pocket diaries of previously unknown authorship. Written by Brigadier General George R. Snowden, a lieutenant at the time of the Battle of Gettysburg, later the Major-General of the National Guard of Pennsylvania.

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