Edwin Orson Hammond

		b. 1838 

bp. Ohio 

m. March 13, 1864, Adeline Bostwick 

d. 1893 

pd. Lena, Illinois 

Edwin O. Hammond, son of Ward K. and Sophronia Hale Hammond, was an early volunteer in the War of the Rebellion. A farmer with his brothers in 1861, he enlisted July 23, 1861 and renewed his enlistment in 1864 after being in some terrible battles with his unit at Pittsburg Landing, near Savannah, Tenn., at Corinth, Miss. and later in the siege of Vicksburg, Miss. See page for more details.

Figure 2.18: Edwin O. Hammond

He enlisted as a private, but was in command of his company of 96 men at Pocataligo, So. Carolina when he was wounded. He was sent to a hospital in New York by ship from South Carolina, which the Union forces had recently captured.

He married Adeline Pamelia (Addie) Bostwick (b. Jan. 11, 1848, in Illinois) on March 13th 1864 while home on a Veterans furlough. Adeline gave birth to their first child in February 1865 while Edwin was still with the U. S. Army, by that time in a hospital in New York.

After the war ended he returned to Hanover with a severely limited right arm, and returned to farm work. He and Adeline bought a fruit farm and home in Lena, Stephenson Co., Ill., just east of Stockton, Ill. where his brother Merwin Hammond had settled. He received a disability pension from the U.S. Military which aided him and his family of four children. He died in Lena in 1893, at 54 years of age.

Figure 2.19: Edwin O. Hammond and Adeline Bostwick Hammond

Figure 2.20: Royal Cornelius Hammond