John Francis Hammond
Name: John Francis Hammond
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 4th USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Libertytown, Frederick County, MD
Enlistment Date: n/a
Company: H
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: Sergeant
Notes:
Enlisted in Baltimore, MD; Buried with wife Diannah (d. 1924) and son John C. (1876-1936)
Source(s):
Paul and Rita Gordon, Frederick County, Maryland: A Playground of the Civil War (The Heritage Partnership, Frederick, MD: M&B Printing Inc., 1994), 284; L. Tilden Moore, mss. notes on USCT soldier burial sites, Catoctin Center for Regional Studies, Frederick, MD.
