October 30, 2013

This photo of the Daniel Klingel farm was taken a few years back, but apart from a recent paint job, little has changed. The farm and barn are the main focal point of the photo. To the right, the 120^TH New York Infantry’s tall monument sits alongside Sickles Avenue. If you click to enlarge the photo, you can just barely see a brown horse standing in front of the white outbuilding. There are three other markers and monuments in this photo as well. The marker detailing the activities of Battery K, 4^TH U.S. Artillery can be seen at far center left, between the two tall wooden fence-posts in the foreground.

A more noticeable monument can be seen on the other side of the white picket fence, just to the right of the tall fence-posts. This is the impressive 11^TH New Jersey Infantry monument. To the right of the “grooved” monument to the 120^TH New York, underneath the larger tree, is the 16^TH Massachusetts Infantry. I was having trouble identifying the white monument to the right of the New York monument until I realized it was a car :-) Emmitsburg Road runs to the left of the photo.

 

 

**HONORED TODAY**

PVT. CHARLES PETER LE CLEAR

Co. E, 108^TH New York Infantry

Born about 1843 --- Died July 1863 at age 20

Pvt. Le Clear enlisted at the age of nineteen on the 22^ND of July 1862. He would be dead less than a year later. His Find-A-Grave page states that he was “shot in the eye by a sharpshooter”, and he was later buried at Gettysburg’s Evergreen Cemetery. A memorial stone stands in Oakwood Cemetery, Penfield, New York. 


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