Hammond, Le Roy
soldier, was born about 1740 in Richmond county, Va. In 1779 he took the field with his regiment and played an important part in the bat- Ferry. After the fall of Charleston he adopted, like Marion and warfare, and was constantly engaged in fighting the loyalists, British and Indians . He died about 1800.
HAMMOND, MARCUS MARCELLUS, soldier, author, was born CLAUDIUS Dec. 12, 1814, in Newberry district, S. C.
He was a United States army officer whose home was in South Carolina, and who published A Critical History of the Mexican war.
He died Jan. 23, 1876, in Aiken county, S. C.