PVT Edgar M. Vermilya
1843 - 1865
Co. C, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery
CW
 
 Edgar M. Vermilya was born in 1843, in Albany County, New York, to John P. and Maria (Bogardus) Vermilya.

The family migrated to Illinois in the 1850’s, and settled in Cuba Township.

At the age of 21, he enlisted in Chicago, and mustered in with Company C, 2nd Illinois Light Artillery, on September 28, 1864. The Regiment performed garrison duty in Fort Donelson and Clarksville, Tennessee, and also engaged in mounted scout duty between the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers.

Of the 22 men Company C lost between 1862 and 1865, four were killed and mortally wounded and eighteen were lost to disease. Private Vermilya was one of them.

Private Edgar Vermilya died of disease on June 9, 1865, at Ft Donelson, Tennessee, six weeks before the Regiment was disbanded. He is buried next to his parents in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.

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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution