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HAMMOND

HAMMOND, Nathaniel Job, representative, was born in Elbert county, Ga., Dec. 26, 1833; son of Amos Worrill and Eliza Caroline (Hud- son) Hammond; grandson of Job and Lucy (Howard) Hammond, and of Nathaniel Greene Hudson ; great-grandson of Samuel Hammond of Virginia, and a de- scendant of Maj.- Gen. John Ham- mond, who came from England to Vir- ginia in 1635-37; re- moved to Maryland about 1645, and laid out the city of An- napolis, changing its name from Provi- dence in honor of Queen Anne. Nathan- iel was gradviated at the University of Georgia in 1852 ; prac- tised law in Atlanta in partnership with his father; was solicitor-general of the state, 1861-65 ; reporter of the supreme court, 1867-72 ; attorney -general of the state of Georgia, 1872-77; a member of the state constitutional conventions of 1865 and 1877; a Democratic representative in the 46th, 47th, 48th and 49th congresses, 1879-87, and a member of the judiciary committee; trus- tee of the University of Georgia, 1872-99 ; chair- man of that board, 1889-99, and the earnest and powerful champion of the University and of edu- cation in general before the state legislature, and in convention ; president of the board of trustees of the Atlanta college of physicians and surgeons ; and chairman of the commission to settle claims between the state and the Western & Atlantic railroad company in 1891. His portrait was presented to the state by the bar of Atlanta, accepted by the General assembly, and placed in the law library of the state capitol. He was mar- ried in 1858, to Laura, daughter of Curtis Lewis of Griffin, Ga. He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from the University of Georgia in 1896. He died in Atlanta, Ga., April 20, 1899.

HAMMOND, Samuel, representative, was born in Richmond county, Va., Sept. 21, 1757; son of Charles Hammond. He was a volunteer in the partisan warfare between the Whigs and Tories in North and South Carolina, 1776-82, on the Whig side, and operated against the Indians under Governor Dunmore ; distinguished himself at the battle of Kanawha ; led a company of patriots in the battle of Long Bridge, Va., in 1776; served under General Lincoln at the battle of Stono, S.C., in 1779; was assistant quarter- master at the siege of Savannah, Ga. ; was a

member of the council of capitulation at Charles- ton, S.C., and refused British protection. With thirty -three chosen men he made his escape to North Carolina and joined in the battles of Cedar Springs, Musgrove's Mills and Enoree River. In the battles of King's Mountain, Oct. 7, 1780, and Cowpens he lost many of his men. He then fought at Blackstocks where he was wounded ; in the siege of Augusta, Ga., and on Sept. 8, 1781, at Eutaw, S.C, at which last place he was severely wounded. He was made colonel of cavalry, Sept. 17, 1781, and was with General Greene's army up to the close of the war for independence. In 1783 he was married to Mrs. Rebecca Rae, widow of Col. John Rae of Au- gusta, Ga. He then settled in Savannah, Ga. ; was appointed surveyor general of the state; was elected to the state legislature and again entered the military service during the time of the Creek war of 1793. Upon the death of his wife in 1798 he retired to Rae"s Hall. On May 25, 1802, he married Eliza Amelia 0"Keefe. He was a representative in the 8th congress, 1803-05; military and civil commandant of upper Louisiana, and receiver of public moneys of Mis- souri, 1805-24. He was again a representative in the Georgia state legislature, 1824, surveyor- general of the state. 1825-31, and secx'etary of the state, 1831-35. He died at Varello Farm near Augusta, Ga., Sept. 11, 1842.

HAMMOND, William Alexander, surgeon- general, was born in Annapolis, Md., Aug. 28, 1828. He was graduated at the University of the city of New York M.D. in 1848, and entered the U.S. army in 1849 as assistant surgeon with the rank of 1st lieutenant. After eleven years of .service on the frontier he resigned from the army in October, 1860, to become pro- fessor of anatomy and physiology in the University of Mary- land. He left the ""*; chair in 1861, to or- ^; ganize U.S. hospitals * -^ in Hagerstown, Fred- ■,-"' ■:f't/!j^ erick and Baltimore, "^ j having re entered the

army as assistant ■_

surgeon in May, 1861. i

In April, 1863, up- '9rdiJ^l4^^tlmm^^^ on the reorgani- zation of the medical department, he was ap- pointed through the urgent request of General McClellan and the U.S. sanitary commission, sur- geon general of the U.S. army, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier -general in the U.S. army. His management of the office was radical and