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John Henry Hammond (Louisville, Kentucky, Brig. Gen. and Asst Adj. Gen.)

b. 1833-06-30 d. 1890-04-30

Louisville, Kentucky, soldier. New York native. Married Sophia Wolfe Hammond in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on November 10, 1864. Student in Clinton County, Iowa, in 1856. Resident in California in 1861. Served in Company G of the 6th California Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A). Promoted to Captain and appointed as Assistant Adjutant General to William T. Sherman on November 20, 1861. Promoted to Major on June 9, 1862. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on February 10, 1863. Commanded the 2st Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Division of the 5th District of Kentucky from September 8, 1864 to October 12, 1864. Promoted to Brevet Brigadier General and served as commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade of the 23rd Cops of the Army of the Ohio in the 2nd District of Kentucky. Commander of the 7th Cavalry Division of the Cavalry Corps of the Military Division of the Mississippi from January 3, 1865 to February 3, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Census of Iowa(1856), Population Schedules, Clinton County, Clinton, p. 258-9.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, Livingston County, Chillicothe, p. 454B.

Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, (Des Moines, IA: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908), 71, 465, 537.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film #000482710, p. 68-9.

Letters Received by the Office of the Adjutant General, Main Series, 1861-1870, NARA RG 94, Roll 0030.

Official Army Register for 1865, (Washington D. C.: Adjutant General's Office, 1865), 58, 68, 83.

U.S. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, NARA RG 15, Microfilm Series T288, Minnesota, Application #696127, Certificate #436815.

"John Henry Hammond (1833-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial #38578990, accessed December 12, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38578990.

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Hammond, John Henry. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32280422 (November 12, 2026).

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