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===Civil War Service=== Virgil enlisted as a Private in Company C of the [[83rd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment|83rd Illinois Infantry]] on July 26, 1862, and mustered into service on August 21. The 83rd fought at the [[Battle of Dover (1863)|Battle of Dover]] and then was primarily on garrison duty in Tennessee.<ref name="TYWLK" /> Virgil was court-martialed for a minor offense and docked two weeks pay as punishment.<ref name="gormley" /> In the summer of 1863 while Virgil was on active duty, Ellen's father told her that Virgil had been killed in Tennessee. In early 1864, Ellen married a Dutch man named John Van Rossum, and in May of that year they joined a large group who relocated from Pella, Iowa, to the [[Oregon Territory]].<ref name="Beltman" /> When Virgil was discharged from the military on June 26, 1865, he returned to Iowa but could not find his wife and daughter. He hired on at a local farm and helped operate a grocery store, before leaving for California to join the rest of the Earp family. In 1868, Nicholas Earp took the family east again, eventually settling in [[Lamar, Missouri]]. On August 28, 1870, Virgil married Rosella Dragoo (born in France in 1853) in Lamar.<ref name="gormley" /> His father as [[justice of the peace]] married them, but there are no further records of Rosella.<ref name="historynetvirgil" />
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