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I'm trying to solve a family history mystery. A person I'm researching (Severyn Bruyn Linderman) purportedly served under George H. Sharpe (Secret Service/Bureau of Military Information) and then under Grant at City Point. I can find no record at all of this service other than his son and his brother (who was a Union officer) mentioning it in letters. His son donated photos to the Nebraska Historical Society and among them is a photo with a handwritten "Commissary Head Quarters City Point Va 1864" below the image, which I have not found another copy of by searching the various online archives. It's a pretty uninteresting photo of a two story house with some barrels in the fenced yard. Can anyone tell me how common (quantities of) prints would be made during that time of non-personal Civil War photos such as this. I'm trying to figure out why he would have this photo - could he have got it as a souvenir easily obtained after the war, or would he likely have been connected with the subject at the time?
Not sure who the photographer was, this snip of the legend may provide a clue from the handwriting:
Not sure who the photographer was, this snip of the legend may provide a clue from the handwriting:
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