battle some were killed and some severely wounded. After the battle of King's Mountain he was joined by some from Ninety-Six, and with all the men under his command he marched into North Carolina, where he acted a short while under Colonel Davis. He was at the battle of Blackstocks with Sumter where he had three horses shot out from under him and was wounded. He had a fight at Long Cane, near Ninety-Six. In the battle of Cowpens, on the 17th of June, 1781, he commanded, as Major, the left of the front line. From this time till the battle of Eutaw, he was actively engaged as a partisan. At the battle of Eutaw, on the 8th of September, he had the good fortune to distinguish himself. He was also badly wounded at this battle.
After the war he married Rebecca Rae in 1783 and they settled in Savannah. He and his brother, Abner established a mercantile business. In Georgia he was honored with several important posts. He served in the Creek War and commanded a corps of Georgia Volunteers in 1793. Hammond was a Surveyor General of Georgia in 1796. He was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives 1796-1798 and a member of the Georgia Senate
