Richard Henry Rush
(1825-1893)
BIRTH
January 14, 1825
PLACE
London, England, U.K
DEATH
October 17, 1893
PLACE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S
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Richard Henry Rush (1825–1893) was a Union cavalry colonel and son of diplomat Richard Rush. Born in London during his father’s mission to Britain, he graduated from West Point in 1846 and served in the regular army, including the Coast Survey. In 1861 he organized the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, known as Rush’s Lancers for its unusual weapons. He commanded during the Peninsula and Maryland campaigns before illness interrupted his service. He resigned from the army in 1864.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Richard Henry Rush’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Richard Henry Rush is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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Richard Henry Rush was a Union cavalry colonel and son of diplomat Richard Rush. In 1861 he organized the Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry, known as Rush’s Lancers for its unusual weapons. He commanded during the Peninsula and Maryland campaigns before illness interrupted his service. Richard Henry Rush died on October 17, 1893, in Philadelphia of heart failure and was interred at Laurel Hill Cemetery. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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