Company M - 55th Virginia Infantry - CSA
From Richard O'Sullivan;
HAMMACK, JAMES LEWIS: Born in November 1844. Eldest son of a well-off farmer and slave owner in Farnham Parish, Richmond Co.. Living there with his parents and siblings in 1850. This comfortable life may have come to an end in the 1850s. There is no trace of the family on the 1860 population census, nor on the slave owners schedule. James' mother died c.1860 and his father remarried in 1861. Despite being below conscription age, James enlisted at Fredericksburg in what later became Co.M, 55th Va., on 3/13/62. He was left behind, sick, when the army evacuated the town, on 4/18/62 and never returned to duty. Later dropped as a deserter. Married his widowed cousin Maria Ellen Pugh, 12/24/68 (3 children). If the family had still had resources in 1860, they were bereft of them by the end of the war. James and Maria spent the rest of their lives at Washington township in Richmond Co.. For approximately the first twenty years James worked as a tenant farmer. By 1900 he had taken out a tenancy on a mill. In 1920 he was a widower living with his eldest son and family. Died soon after, at Emerton, in Richmond Co..
From Richard O'Sullivan;
HAMMACK, JAMES LEWIS: Born in November 1844. Eldest son of a well-off farmer and slave owner in Farnham Parish, Richmond Co.. Living there with his parents and siblings in 1850. This comfortable life may have come to an end in the 1850s. There is no trace of the family on the 1860 population census, nor on the slave owners schedule. James' mother died c.1860 and his father remarried in 1861. Despite being below conscription age, James enlisted at Fredericksburg in what later became Co.M, 55th Va., on 3/13/62. He was left behind, sick, when the army evacuated the town, on 4/18/62 and never returned to duty. Later dropped as a deserter. Married his widowed cousin Maria Ellen Pugh, 12/24/68 (3 children). If the family had still had resources in 1860, they were bereft of them by the end of the war. James and Maria spent the rest of their lives at Washington township in Richmond Co.. For approximately the first twenty years James worked as a tenant farmer. By 1900 he had taken out a tenancy on a mill. In 1920 he was a widower living with his eldest son and family. Died soon after, at Emerton, in Richmond Co..
Company M - 55th Virginia Infantry - CSA
From Richard O'Sullivan;
HAMMACK, JAMES LEWIS: Born in November 1844. Eldest son of a well-off farmer and slave owner in Farnham Parish, Richmond Co.. Living there with his parents and siblings in 1850. This comfortable life may have come to an end in the 1850s. There is no trace of the family on the 1860 population census, nor on the slave owners schedule. James' mother died c.1860 and his father remarried in 1861. Despite being below conscription age, James enlisted at Fredericksburg in what later became Co.M, 55th Va., on 3/13/62. He was left behind, sick, when the army evacuated the town, on 4/18/62 and never returned to duty. Later dropped as a deserter. Married his widowed cousin Maria Ellen Pugh, 12/24/68 (3 children). If the family had still had resources in 1860, they were bereft of them by the end of the war. James and Maria spent the rest of their lives at Washington township in Richmond Co.. For approximately the first twenty years James worked as a tenant farmer. By 1900 he had taken out a tenancy on a mill. In 1920 he was a widower living with his eldest son and family. Died soon after, at Emerton, in Richmond Co..
From Richard O'Sullivan;
HAMMACK, JAMES LEWIS: Born in November 1844. Eldest son of a well-off farmer and slave owner in Farnham Parish, Richmond Co.. Living there with his parents and siblings in 1850. This comfortable life may have come to an end in the 1850s. There is no trace of the family on the 1860 population census, nor on the slave owners schedule. James' mother died c.1860 and his father remarried in 1861. Despite being below conscription age, James enlisted at Fredericksburg in what later became Co.M, 55th Va., on 3/13/62. He was left behind, sick, when the army evacuated the town, on 4/18/62 and never returned to duty. Later dropped as a deserter. Married his widowed cousin Maria Ellen Pugh, 12/24/68 (3 children). If the family had still had resources in 1860, they were bereft of them by the end of the war. James and Maria spent the rest of their lives at Washington township in Richmond Co.. For approximately the first twenty years James worked as a tenant farmer. By 1900 he had taken out a tenancy on a mill. In 1920 he was a widower living with his eldest son and family. Died soon after, at Emerton, in Richmond Co..
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