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Civil War Soldiers - Hammond
| Hammond, William A.,
brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was born in Annapolis, Md., Aug. 28,
1828. He was graduated M. D. at the University of the City of New York
in 1848 and entered the U. S. army in 1849 as assistant surgeon with
the rank of 1st lieutenant. After eleven years spent on the frontier
he resigned in Oct., 1860, to become professor of anatomy and
physiology in the University of Maryland, but reentered the army, May,
1861, as assistant surgeon, and organized United States hospitals at
Hagerstown, Frederick and Baltimore. Upon the reorganization of the
medical department he was appointed surgeon-general of the U. S. army
with the rank of brigadier-general U. S. A. in April, 1862, through
the urgent request of Gen. McClellan and the United States sanitary
commission. He instituted radical changes in the management of his
office, established the army medical museum by special order, and
increased the efficiency of the field, camp and permanent hospital
service many fold, making it fully competent to handle an army of
1,000,000 men. On account of charges preferred against him of
irregularity in the award of liquor contracts, he was tried by
court-martial and dismissed from the army in Aug., 1864, but in 1879,
upon a review of the court-martial proceedings made by the president,
he was restored to his place on the army rolls as surgeon- general and
brigadier-general and placed on the retired list. Upon leaving the
army Dr. Hammond practiced medicine in New York city, attaining
prominence as an authority on nervous diseases, on which he delivered
many lectures before medical students. He was the author of a number
of technical works, mainly on diseases of the nervous system, and of
several novels. He died in Washington, D. C., Jan. 5, 1900. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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