Study of a Union Soldier

This painting was shown at the 1999, Guild of Boston Artists show.  The Catalog description is as follows:

“Frank Millet painted two mural decorations for the Governor’s Reception Room of the Minnesota State Capitol. One was entitled The Treaty of the Traverse des Sioux and the other was The Fourth Minnesota Regiment Entering Vicksburg.  Frank probably began working on the Vicksburg mural shortly after his daughter’s wedding in Broadway during the summer of 1906.  The mural showed a band of musicians, general John B. Sanborn on horseback, Captain E. U. Russell and the men of Company A as they marched into Vicksburg on July 4, 1863.  This study is of a Union soldier, shown in the mural right of center, foreground, whose duty is was to guard the path for the marching Minnesota regiment.