Date Died: January 1898

Place Buried: Barnwell, SC

Occupation: Planter, Brigadier General in Confederate Army

Richmond Academy - Augusta, GA
The Citadel - graduated first in class 1847

Comptroller General of South Carolina, 1876-1880

1850 – Hagood was admitted to the bar but never practiced law

The Citadel's Johnson Hagood Stadium, located on Hagood Avenue in Charleston, was named for Governor Hagood

When the Civil War broke out, he was quickly promoted from a brigadier general of militia to a colonel of the SC volunteers to a Brigadier General. Hagood won great honors as a soldier and as a statesman. He served as Comptroller General of South Carolina from 1876-1880 and as Governor from 1880-82. During his term as Governor the General Assembly passed a law that disqualified anyone participating in a duel from holding public office.

Hagood had studied law and was admitted to the bar, but never practiced law. Instead he became a planter. He prefered plantation life above everything else. He was also intensely loyal to the Citadel. The Citadel's Johnson Hagood Stadium is named in his honor.

Of Hagood it is said "There have been greater men, but none truer, none cleaner, higher, and more unalterable in doing the right as he saw it; and he saw with clearness and accuracy."

Hagood died in January 1898 and is buried in Barnwell, SC.

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