Jarratt enlisted as a sergeant on May 24, 1861 in Co. A of the 41st VA Infantry. He was promoted to lieutenant on May 1, 1862. He was wounded in the leg at the Battle of Second Manassas on August 30, 1862 . He was detached for light duty in January 1863 to enroll conscripts in Sussex County, VA. Jarratt was promoted to captain on September 15, 1864. He was found not guilty in January 1865 during court-martial proceedings of a charge of being drunk on duty, and served until he surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
Jarratt lived in Belfield in Greensville County,VA after the war where the censuses record him as a farmer. He died August 1, 1913 and is buried in the Jarratt family cemetery in Sussex County, VA.
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