Curtis Bacon (abt. 1839 - 1864)

Born about 1839 in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States

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Died 10 Jul 1864 at about age 25 in Davids Island, Westchester, New York, United States

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Private Curtis Bacon served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 15 May 1861
Mustered out: 10 Jul 1864
Side: Union
Regiment(s): 1st Independent Battery, Connecticut Light Artillery

Curtis Bacon Died of Wounds during the United States Civil War.

Curtis was born in 1839. He was the son of Theron Bacon and Electa Barnes.

Curtis Bacon was a Veteran of the Civil War.

Curtis Bacon was the first man to enlist from Simsbury, in October of 1861. He chose to re-enlist as a veteran on December 19, 1863.

Enlistment Date: 15 Oct 1861. Enlistment Rank: Private. 1st Independent Battery, Connecticut Light Artillery.

Casualty Date: 15 May 1864. Casualty Place: Proctor's Creek, Virginia. (wounded by the splinters from the gun carriage in the left hand and arm).

Severe wound in left arm, amputated, died of wounds. Decamp G. H., David's Island.

On May 15, 1864, Bacon’s regiment, the First Light Battery, Connecticut Volunteers, was engaged near Richmond, Virginia. On that Sunday morning, during the fourth day of the five-day Battle of Proctor’s Creek, a Confederate artillery shot hit the hub of a gun wheel of one of the Battery’s cannons, and the band ricocheted off and struck Bacon. Additionally, splinters and iron shards struck William Davis of Guilford in the face and chest. Comrades of Bacon and Davis believed Davis’s wounds were mortal, but they expected Bacon to survive. As it turned out, Davis actually had no serious injuries, while Bacon died on July 10, 1864, from gangrene that developed as a result of his wounds. The gun wheel that played a part in his demise now resides at the State Capitol in Hartford, Connecticut, as a memorial to the contributions and sacrifices of Bacon and the rest of the men of the First Light Battery, Connecticut Volunteers.

He passed away in 1864. Buried at Cypress Hills National Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York.

Sources

• 1860 United States Federal Census.

• Connecticut History. Civil War Soldier Dies of Gangrene – Today in History: July 10.

• Connecticut History. Gun Wheel of the First Light Battery, Connecticut Volunteers.

• Wikimedia Commons. 1st Light Artillery gun wheel.

• History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers, 1861-1865., 1901. Curtis Bacon pg 762.

• U.S., Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865.

• U.S. Veterans Gravesites, ca.1775-2006.

• Find A Grave. Curtis Bacon.