Standing portrait of a pair of young musicians, one holding a fife and the other wearing a regulation painted eagle drum and holding drumsticks against its head. Both wear 4-button sack coats and Model 1840 musician's swords. (Very few minor imperfections to plate.) Housed in a pressed paper case. The subjects' countenances convey a fresh off the farm innocent as yet undisturbed by the horrors of war. Some details highlighted in gold and hand-tinted in red.