Please help reading the penmanship

[Sea Scallop]

Can anyone help identify the writing on the back of this CDV?

 

[Nathan Stuart]

Maybe,

'Respectfully
D. J. Eddings
Asst. Surgeon'

 

[farrargirl]

Can anyone help identify the writing on the back of this CDV?

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Is this the best image resolution you can get? Somehow I cannot get a larger, sharper image…

 

[lupaglupa]

It really would help us @Sea Scallop if the pictures were attached in a way that allowed us to open them as larger images.

 

[JOHN42768]

Maybe,

'Respectfully
D. J. Eddings
Asst. Surgeon'

Looks correct

 

[chubachus]

Was it taken somewhere interesting? Can't make out the photographer's stamp.

 

[MRB1863]

Agree with Eddings Asst. Surgeon

 

[Library Lady]

Here is the e-Bay listing for what is being asked about. You can click on the images to make them bigger. The photographer is O. H. Willard's Galleries in Philadelphia.

Civil War Identified - R18c Tax Stamp - D. Eddings - Asst. Surgeon 40th - PH3 | eBay

He would be a Civil War Assistant Surgeon of what looks to be the 40th volunteers, but I do not know what State. He has penned this greeting on the reverse in his own period correct handwriting.

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