[616] headquarters at Charleston. Six months later he entered the Washington artillery, Capt. George H. Walters commanding, and was mustered into the Confederate service with this command, thereafter known as Walters' light battery. He was present at the bombardment of Fort Sumter in 1861, and with the artillery he participated in a considerable number of engagements in North and South Carolina, including the fights at Seabrook's Island causeway, June 17, 1863, ‘Waterloo,’ John's island, July 9, 10, 11, 1864; with gunboats on the Dawhoo river; with the Pawnee, Little Britain island, in February, 1865, and the battles of Averasboro and McNeill's Ferry, N. C., in March, 1865. He was also detailed on various occasions, in the office of Captain Maloney, adjutant-general of Hagood's brigade, as secretary of the brigade medical board, in the office of Adjutant-General Stringfellow, when the latter was connected with the department of Georgia, Florida and South Carolina, and in the office of General Pemberton's adjutant-general, at Hillsboro. After the surrender of the army at Greensboro, he returned to his father's home in Darlington district, and a few months later made his home at Charleston, engaging in the manufacture of building materials, an occupation which he has made very profitable. He is highly regarded as a citizen, and popular with his comrades of Camp Washington artillery, U. C. V.
James Robert Hagood, third son of Dr. James O'Hair Hagood, of Barnwell, S. C., was born November 26, 1844. At an early age he gave evidence of possessing those physical and moral qualities which being developed made him famous in after years. As a boy he was strong, erect, strikingly handsome, and very spirited. He was a leader of his companions and was fond of leading in every enterprise requiring the employment of manly traits for success, but at no time would he ever countenance any exploit of pure wantonness, and would always firmly rebuke any proposition savoring of meanness. He was endowed with the highest order of courage, and consequently was amiable and good tempered. Among boys, and later among men, he was very popular; always a favorite with ladies, as well for his beauty of person and manly attributes as for the fact that he entertained a respect bordering on reverence for the sex. He
