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Johnson Hagood was born on February 21, 1829, in Barnwell, South Carolina, United States, the son of Dr. James O. and Indina Allen Hagood, and grandson of Johnson Hagood, lawyer and amateur scientist of local fame.
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Originally published in 1910, these are Confederate Brigadier General, Johnson Hagood's memoirs of the Civil War. Part 1. - Hagood's 1st 12 Months - South Carolina Volunteers Part 2. - Hagood's Brigade
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Johnson Hagood was born on February 21, 1829, in Barnwell, South Carolina, United States, the son of Dr. James O. and Indina Allen Hagood, and grandson of Johnson Hagood, lawyer and amateur scientist of local fame.
After preliminary education in Richmond Academy at Augusta, Georgia, young Hagood entered the Citadel, the state military academy at Charleston, South Carolina, from which he was graduated in 1847. He then studied law under Judge Edmund Bellinger of Charleston.
Admitted to the bar in 1850, Johnson Hagood settled in Barnwell, planter as well as lawyer, and in the following year was named by Governor Means deputy adjutant-general of militia, a position which afforded him an opportunity to supervise much training of troops. In the same year he was elected by the legislature commissioner in equity for Barnwell County.
At the outbreak of the Civil War, Hagood was named colonel of the 1st of South Carolina Regiment and had a part in the reduction of Sumter. Ordered to Virginia, he was in the first battle at Manassas and then hurried back to aid in the defense of Charleston, serving notably at Secessionville, after which in July 1862 he was made brigadier-general. He remained in the vicinity of Charleston until the spring of 1864 when he was again sent to Virginia, arriving in time to win Beauregard’s praise for valor at Walthall Junction in May. His most spectacular exploit was on the Weldon Road in August when at the head of a small detachment he cut his way through a larger encircling body of Federais; but his severest service was in the trenches around Petersburg. At one time, according to his own statement, he occupied a section for sixty-five days before he was relieved, losing about 1, 500 of his 2, 300 men.
Returning to his Barnwell plantation at the close of the war, Hagood immediately manifested intelligent and influential interest in rebuilding the state, particularly in the development of agriculture and education. He was among the first in this period to champion diversified farming, and he practised effectively on his own plantation what he preached to others.
Meantime Johnson Hagood had entered politics, having run unsuccessfully as Democratic candidate for Congress in the election of 1868. He was a conspicuous figure in both Tax-Payers’ Conventions, 1871 and 1874, and was vice-president of the Democratic convention of 1876. Nominated by that group for comptroller-general, he went in with the Hampton ticket in the desperate struggle which marked the end of Reconstruction in South Carolina. Two years later he was renominated without opposition and again elected.
With the powerful indorsement of Hampton, Hagood defeated General Martin Evans for the Democratic nomination for governor in 1880, and in the general election he overwhelmed Blair, his Republican opponent. As governor, Hagood had two ambitions: to give the state a business-like administration and to stimulate, as far as possible, the economic life of the people. In both endeavors he realized measurable success. Not interested in reelection, he withdrew from political life, save for one further venture when in behalf of his friend, General Hampton, he joined the vain fight against the Tilman movement of 1890, after which he enjoyed again the quiet of his Barnwell plantation. But he labored consistently for the causes which were his civic passions, the establishment of a saner agriculture and the perfecting of an adequate educational system. He was twice chairman of the state board of agriculture and was for fourteen years chairman of the board of visitors of the Citadel. To him is due no small share of credit for the material and intellectual progress slowly achieved by his state. He died in Barnwell.
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Hagood was a member and president of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Society.
On November 21, 1856, Johnson Hagood married Eloise B. Butler, the daughter of Senator A. P. Butler.