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Pvt George T Rarick

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Pvt George T Rarick Veteran

Birth
Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
1 Feb 1865 (aged 20–21)
Dinwiddie County, Virginia, USA
Burial
Hopewell, Hopewell City, Virginia, USA Add to Map
Plot
, 1390
Memorial ID
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The son of Jacob B. and Margaret A. Rarick of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, George was a private in Co. F, 205th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.

At the time of George's death, the 205th Penna. Vol. Inf. was part of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, IX Corps, Army of the Potomac, and was engaged in Dinwiddie County, VA during the 1864-1865 siege of Petersburg.

He died in the Regimental Hospital of "Typho. Mal. fever" [Typhomalarial Fever — an archaic description of a form of fever having symptoms both of malaria and typhoid fever]. The regiment lost, during its service, 3 Officers and 37 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 17 Enlisted men by disease (including George). Total 57.

He does not appear in Bates or the muster rolls in the Pennsylvania State Archives.
The son of Jacob B. and Margaret A. Rarick of Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, George was a private in Co. F, 205th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry.

At the time of George's death, the 205th Penna. Vol. Inf. was part of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, IX Corps, Army of the Potomac, and was engaged in Dinwiddie County, VA during the 1864-1865 siege of Petersburg.

He died in the Regimental Hospital of "Typho. Mal. fever" [Typhomalarial Fever — an archaic description of a form of fever having symptoms both of malaria and typhoid fever]. The regiment lost, during its service, 3 Officers and 37 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 17 Enlisted men by disease (including George). Total 57.

He does not appear in Bates or the muster rolls in the Pennsylvania State Archives.

Inscription

1390
G.F. [sic] Rarick
PA

Gravesite Details

The inclusion of "F" rather than "T" as the middile initial results from a transcription error.


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