 He was seriously wounded and Dr. George E. Goodfellow was forced to remove of shattered humerus bone from Virgil's left arm, leaving his arm permanently crippled.In 1898 Virgil was startled to receive a letter from a Mrs. Levi Law, who turned out to be his long-lost daughter who had disappeared with her mother while Virgil fought in the Civil War.He visited her and his first wife in Portland, Oregon in 1898.