"Long live those musical beings, the only objection I have to whom is the sad repetition of their "calls." But time, my twenty months, will obliterate all such impressions. Henry Huss, one of them, has drawn a faithful picture..."
"High Private Manton", aka Pvt. J. Montgomery Bailey, Company C

The Artwork of Henry Huss

Seventeenth Connecticut Volunteer Infantry

Page One

Color sketch of Henry's quarters at Fort Marshall, Baltimore, MD. This was the first assignment for the Seventeenth Connecticut in the fall of 1862

Color sketch of Henry's winter quarters at Brooke's Station, Virginia in February 1863. It also reads "1862" - in error. He lists the other occupants on the sketch.

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