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Romulus Riggs Bacon – 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on August 26, 2018
Romulus Riggs “Romeo” Bacon was born on 31 December 1836, in Philadelphia, the son of Dr. James Ware Bacon (1809-1863) of Franklin County, Kentucky, and Alice Anne [Riggs] Bacon (1814-1843) of Philadelphia. Both parents are buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia.
At the time of the Civil War Romeo enrolled in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, Company B, at Philadelphia, at the rank of 1st Lieutenant, 1 August 1862. Ne gave his residence at the time as Philadelphia. The card from the Pennsylvania Archives, shown above, notes that he resigned on 11 February 1863.
The next reference to him is in the U.S. Civil War Draft Records, July 1863, which place him in Franklin County, Kentucky, where he was working as a clerk. He also indicated in the draft registration that he had prior service as a 1st Lieutenant in the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry, but “resigned [on a] doctor’s certificate.”
Then, on 18 August 1868, he died at Frankfort, Franklin County, Kentucky. He is buried in the cemetery there.
The Louisville Daily Courier of 21 August 1868 reported his death as follow:
BACON – In Frankfort, on the evening of the 18th inst., of consumption, R. RIGGS BACON, in the 32nd year of his age.
While no connection with him and the Lykens Valley has been found, he is included here because Company B of the 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry was almost entirely populated with men from the Lykens Valley and he was an officer in that company for about 6 months.
Readers with additional information about Romulus Riggs “Romeo” Bacon are urged to submit it.
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Some information can be found at his Findagrave Memorial.
News clipping from Newspapers.com.
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