A reenactor of the American Civil War with the 155th New York Volunteer Infantry and the Columbia Rifles, Mr. Fleming has several personal connections with the Maple Leaf story, having grown up in Western New York near the 112th NY’s home in Chautauqua County, and lived years later less than two miles from the Port of Rochester, where the Maple Leaf made its pre-war home. His parents now live in Mandarin, Florida, just a few miles east of the spot in the St. Johns River where the Maple Leaf sank. His mother grew up in Jacksonville, and is the great-great granddaughter of a lieutenant in the 8th Florida Infantry.