On the way to the Battle of Gettysburg. Company L, Second Regulars"" – Antique Print
![On the way to the Battle of Gettysburg. Company L, Second Regulars"", [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/49/492fa0f1b7a9-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of On the way to the Battle of Gettysburg. Company L, Second Regulars"". It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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On the way to the Battle of Gettysburg. Company L, Second Regulars""
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This view shows troops on the road, with the caption placing them "on the way to the Battle of Gettysburg" as members of Company L, Second Regulars. The record gives no date for the original photograph, though a catalog note ties it to July 1863, when the battle was fought July 1 to 3 near the Pennsylvania town. The picture survives as a halftone reproduction printed in Francis Trevelyan Miller's *Photographic History of the Civil War*, published in 1911, so readers saw it nearly half a century after the campaign. Another caption note lists the unit as a cavalry regiment, so the identification is worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Subjects | Halftone repro. of photo. Illus. in: Photographic history of the Civil War / Miller. New York: The review of reviews co., 1911, vol. 4, p. 215. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: C.W.--Troops--2nd Cav.; C.W.--Battles--Gettysburg; U.S. Hist--July 1863; B.I. (2). |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,327 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-143260 |
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