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Real picture, or recent?

Can anyone verify the authenticity of this picture?

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/civil-war-pictures/records/last-confederates-surrender.htm

One of the men in this picture is the spitting image of Art Bergeron, and there is at least one person who finds it hard to believe it's not him. They suspect that this picture might be a group of reenactors posing as the captioned individuals, or perhaps Art's head was photoshopped onto one of the bodies. (This came up shortly after Art's memorial service.) Would anyone know if this is an actual CW era picture, and if so, the location of the original? A bottle of beer rests on the outcome of this investigation.

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Yes, Real Picture From 1865
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