Wonderful! Looking really good, and I hope to see more soon. The painting is very sharp. As a matter of fact, the 45th NY is the next-but-one on my list of regiments to paint for my 2nd Bull Run project.
Here is an interesting anecdote taken from a history compiled by former soldiers of the 45th, recalling the first day of Gettysburg:
A remarkable incident happened (brought to our knowledge as we talked with some of our former prisoners): One of the Confederates, named Schwarz, asked whether his brother, who belonged to our Company " B," was among us. This brought out the fact that the interrogator was among the prisoners taken from McLean's red barn, and as Companies A and B, under Captain Korn and Lieutenant Lindemeyer, took most of the prisoners at and in' the barn, he recognized his brother of Company B, and they embraced right there and then, not having seen each other since they left Germany many years previous. The brother, of Company B (Corporal Schwarz), was killed while his Confederate brother was being marched to the rear as our prisoner.
One of those stranger-than-fiction (and often quite sad) events that one finds in a civil war.