ANDREW and WILLIAM EMERY – 118th INFANTRYFATHER AND SON CAME FROM VERMONTO ENLIST - Andrew Emery from St-Charles-sur-Richelieu, settled in Vermont in the mid-1840s with his wife Jeannette Deloigne. He and his eldest son, William, enlisted in the 118th Infantry in Chazy on July 25, ss privates in 1862. Two weeks later, Andrew, also enlisted, and they were both mustered into Company B in Plattsburgh. Both men had dark hair and eyes and a dark complexion, and both were 5’ 4½” tall.William was soon appointed drummer but was returned to his private’s rank for the next two and a half years until he was mustered out on June 13, 1865, at Richmond, VA.Andrew, who joined the regiment at 44 years of age, became ill after April of 1863 and was sent to the Finley General Hospital in Washington just before the regiment left for the Siege of Suffolk. He eventually managed to rejoin the 118th and ended up sick in the hospital again, this time at the U. S. General Hospital in Philadelphia. He was transferred to the 50th Company of the 2nd Battalion of the Veteran Reserve Corps. Andrew was discharged on May 25, 1865, from Camp Curtin in Harrisburg, PA.Andrew and William returned to Vermont. Andrew died in 1889 and was buried in Middlebury. William died in Pittsford, VT, in 1935 just before he was 90 years old and is buried in Rutland.
