Bachia, Richard Augustus
Richard Augustus Bachia (1824 - December 1869) was a New York City publisher active in the mid-19th century. Bachia was born in New York, a descent through is mother, a Waldron, of the early Dutch families who settled New York in 1640. His father Nicholas C. Bachia, emigrated to New York from Venice, Italy, in 1818. He was a publisher from the 1840s at least until the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861 - 1865). During the Civil War, he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel with the 87th New York Infantry and saw action at Manassas Junction during the Second Battle of Bull Run (August 26, 1862), where he was captured and later paroled. He died in New York of consumption in 1869. His son of the same name (1857 - 1930) lived in Bay Shore, Long Island, and became a prominent cigar manufacturer.
New York in the mid-19th century.
New-York and Environs, from Williamsburgh.
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This is an 1848 Edgar W. Foreman and Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr. bird's-eye view of New York City. The view looks west over the East River from Williamsburg towards lower Manhattan, offering a unique look at the Brooklyn waterfront life before the Civil War. (more details)