Hagood, Johnson

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Johnson Hagood
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    South
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    1
    Family
    James O'Hear Hagood (father), Indina Allen (mother), Eloise Brevard Butler (wife, 1856)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    The Citadel
    Occupation
    Politician
    Military
    Attorney or Judge
    Farmer or Planter
    Relation to Slavery
    Slaveholder
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Episcopalian
    Political Parties
    Democratic
    Government
    Governor
    Other state government
    Local government
    Military
    Confederate Army

    Johnson Hagood (American National Bibliography)

    Scholarship
    Hagood was not as well known at the end of the twentieth century as he was at its beginning. While there is little doubt that white Carolinians would have overthrown the Reconstruction regime in 1876, they opted not to resort to overt violence as had Mississippi and other states of the Lower South. Some contemporary observers credit Hagood with developing the successful plans for the 1876 election campaign. As governor, he helped implement the conservatives' plans for gradually reducing the influence of black voters. However, like his fellow conservatives, he was blind to the economic distress that afflicted the great majority of the state's white farmers and did nothing to alleviate their difficulties. His inaction, and that of his like-minded successors, led to the triumph of Tillmanism in 1890.
    Walter B. Edgar, "Hagood, Johnson," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/05/05-00306.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Hagood, Johnson," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/index.php/node/5806.