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Federal (USV)

Private

Elias H. Hammond

(c. 1826 - 1906)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 34 year old farmer at Pittsfield, ME. He enlisted on 13 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company E, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded by a gunshot to his foot in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 29 September and sent back to his unit on 4 December 1862. He transferred to Company K, date not given, and was discharged for disability on 26 February (or 9 April) 1863.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Brighton, ME.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde.1 His service from the Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Hospital detail from the Patient List.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880.

He married Mary Elizabeth Goodwin (1844-1917) in July 1859 and they had 5 children.

Birth

c. 1826; Sidney, ME

Death

11/24/1906; Sidney, ME

Notes

1 Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02 [AotW citation 6646]

2 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, Appendix D, pg. 264 [AotW citation 29275]

3 State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000 [AotW citation 29276]

4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.880 [AotW citation 29287]

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