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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Pope Hagood

(1844 - 1919)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

A 16 year old farm boy from Pleasant Lane, Edgefield District, he enlisted as Private, Company H, 7th South Carolina Infantry on 15 April 1861. He reenlisted in Company A in April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 25 September 1862. He was wounded again, at Chancellorsville, VA on 4 May 1863 and by a gunshot to the wrist on the North Anna River, VA on 23 May 1864. He was in the Jackson Hospital in Richmond to 24 July, then furloughed with no further military record.

References & notes

His service from Swain.1 He's also seen as James Polk Hagood. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

09/13/1844

Death

11/22/1919; Greenwood, SC; burial in Berea Baptist Church Cemetery, Edgefield, SC

Notes

1   Swain, Sr., Glen Allan, The Bloody 7th, Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing Company, 2014, pg. 524  [AotW citation 24524]