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File Details: AZAMm, 500 DPI, TIFF, Original Photograph, 17.5 Mb
| Credit: | unknown photographer |
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| Date: | 1865 |
| Equipment: | horse; mule; saddle; wall tent |
| Locations & Lines: | City Point VA; City Point & Army Line Railroad (CP&AL); Virginia |
| Military Units: | US Army; US Military Railroads (USMRR) |
| Structures & Establishments: | Eating House (City Point VA); Post Office (City Point VA); Sayer’s Oyster House (City Point VA) |
| Transports: | freight wagon |
| Sources: | Library of Congress |
Library of Congress says: Sutler’s headquarters near Petersburg, Va., 1865. [Photograph showing a town near railroad tracks and men, horses and wagons gathered in the center of the town. Buildings have signs reading: “Sayers Oyster House,” “Pipes, Cigars, Oysters, & Soda Water,” “Boots & Shoes for Sale and Repaired,” “Eating House”.] [Copyright by J.L.G. Pierpont, Philadelphia, June 8, 1872.]