. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ON THE WAY TO THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURGCOMPANY L, SECOND REGULARS The Second fought in the reserve brigade under General Merritt, during the sec-ond day of the battle. The leading figures in the picture are First-Sergeant Painterand First-Lieutenant Dewees. Few photographs show cavaby thus, in THE WAGONS WITH THE RIGHT OF WAY The ammunition-train had the right of way over everything else in the army, short of actual guns andsoldiers, when there was any possibility of a fight. The long, cumbrous lines of commissary wagons we
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . ON THE WAY TO THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURGCOMPANY L, SECOND REGULARS The Second fought in the reserve brigade under General Merritt, during the sec-ond day of the battle. The leading figures in the picture are First-Sergeant Painterand First-Lieutenant Dewees. Few photographs show cavaby thus, in THE WAGONS WITH THE RIGHT OF WAY The ammunition-train had the right of way over everything else in the army, short of actual guns andsoldiers, when there was any possibility of a fight. The long, cumbrous lines of commissary wagons wereforced to draw off into the fields to the right and left of the road, or scatter any way they could, to makeway for the ammunition-train. Its wagons were always marked, and were supposed to be kept as near thetroops as possible. Soldiers could go without food for a day or two if necessary; but it might spell defeat
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