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ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY
Figure i.—Brig. Gen. William Alexander Hammond, The Surgeon General, U.S. Army, 1862-1864.
Dr. Hammond was born in Annapolis, Md., on 28 August 1828, was reared in Pennsylvania, and studied medicine in New York, where he received his degree at the age of 20. He passed the examination for entrance into the Army Medical Service and in 1849 became an assistant surgeon. In the next 10 years, he served as medical officer at various frontier posts and also at West Point. He took advantage of a sick leave spent in Europe to study in the medical
