Remains of Va. Soldiers Killed in Battle Are Found

In the retreat of U.S. forces, Battaglia said, her father was left on the frozen ground.

It was suspected, she said, that his body was later buried in a shallow grave.

According to the Defense Department, between 2002 and 2005, U.S. and North Korean teams led by the joint POW/MIA Accounting Command excavated three burial sites that were closely correlated with positions held by the soldiers' unit.

Battaglia set about contacting relatives who could provide the DNA samples that officials said were needed to make identifications. Some, she said, she had not seen for many years, but "they made it so easy."

The Korean War Project tries to find relatives of missing Korean War soldiers so they can provide DNA. Its Web site includes comments from people who knew Scullion.

"He was our company commander," Roy D. Oxenrider wrote. "I served under his command at the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. . . . Capt. Scullion was a great Commander I had and still have the greatest respect for him."

Scullion grew up in the Norfolk area, joined the National Guard in 1939 and, demonstrating an aptitude for leadership, eventually attended Officer Candidate School.

His lack of formal education beyond high school and the fact that he had been something of a scamp as a boy helped win the attention and respect of his troops, his daughter said.

He received a Silver Star during World War II after jumping into water under fire to pull out one of his men during a risky maneuver near a town in northern France in 1945.

Relatives said they had not known he could swim.

His daughter said she has a daughter of her own, Elizabeth Emanuel, who lives in Arlington County.

Emanuel has three children, who are Scullion's great-grandchildren, she said.