It baffles me at times that this was not a big event in my family and passed on. But there was no television at the time and it is likely that nobody in my family knew about this footage, let alone seen it. Charley may have only noticed somebody cranking on a moving picture camera, then again maybe not. So it was well over a hundred years that I came across the footage on the internet as I was trying to find anything about his regiment. I believe I was the first in the family to have discovered it and watched it. At the time I was not sure if Charley was with Company I. I later found the 1900 U.S. Census of his company with him in it and found out that his discharge papers from 1902 still had him with Company I. This closed the loop for me that he was very likely to be in this film. It was an emotional moment for me to find this little gem and share with family. This was my Mother's paternal Grandfather. She has some memory of him, but she was a young girl when he passed.