Hammond Military Memorial- Revolutionary War, Indian Wars

Samuel Hammond served under SC Governor Dunmore and distinguished himself at the Battle of Kanawha (Battle of Point Pleasant) in 1774; served under Colonel Andrew Williamson in July 1776; fought in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War in battles at Great Bridge, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Savannah; commanded troops at battles in Augusta, Blackstock's Farm, Cowpens, Eutaw Springs, Guilford Courthouse, Hanging Rock, and Kings Mountain; Surveyor General of Georgia in 1796; member of Georgia State House of Representatives, 1796-98; member of Georgia State Senate, 1799-1800; elected to the Eighth United States Congress as a representative from Georgia, 1803-05; appointed by President Thomas Jefferson to be the Governor of the Upper Louisiana Territory where he served from 1805 to 1824; the first Governor of the Missouri Territorial Council in 1813, Receiver (Treasurer) in Missouri and President of the Bank of St. Louis; member of South Carolina State House of Representatives, 1824; Surveyor General of South Carolina in 1825; Secretary of State of South Carolina, 1831-35. Retired from public life and died September 11, 1842 (age 85 years, 202 days) at his home, Varello Farm, which is on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River near Augusta, Georgia. Col Leroy Hammond served as a Regimental Commander during the Indian Wars of 1754 - 1763. LeRoy (Colonel) Hammond married Mary Ann Tyler in 1760 when he was 32 years old. The couple's only child, Leroy, was born on May 5, 1762, in Richmond, Wise, Virginia Colony.