He served in command Neufchateau, Nov. 1 to Dec. 1, and as Chief of Staff, Line of Communications, Dec. 2. He was assigned to the General Staff, A.E.F., on Jan. 10, 1918.
He served as President of the board that reorganized the A.E.F. staff and created the Services of Supply. He served as chief of staff S.O.S. until Armistice.
He was in battle sectors along American, French, and British fronts, June–July 1918 and participated in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, Oct. 1918.
He was appointed commander 20th C.A. Brigade and was transferred to the 66th F.A. Brigade.
He represented the American Army in replying to address of Marshal Joffre, Paris, May 12, 1918.
On Dec. 31, 1918, he crossed the Rhein River and established headquarters at Hohr, Germany.
Commanded army artillery of Third Army and corps artillery of 3d Corps.
Served in the Army of Occupation until May 16, 1919, when he sailed for the U.S.
After World War I
He was assigned to command 30th Brigade, C.A.C., and Camp Eustis, Va., Nov. 24, 1919.
Commanded South Atlantic Coast Artillery District., Nov. 1920 to Sep. 1921.
Commander, Third Army and 8th Corps Area, 1933–36.
Inventions
Among his inventions were the Hagood tripod mount, mortar deflection board, and other apparatus connected with sea-coast defense.
Political controversy
Toward the end of the career, Hagood was embroiled in political controversy when he criticized President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal, saying their funding was "stage money". Soon after his comments became public on February 10, 1936, he was relieved from command of the Eighth Corps Area. Hagood requested a meeting with Roosevelt to explain himself, and was granted three months leave. Hagood's friends in the U.S. Congress pressured Roosevelt to give him a new command, however, and less than half the leave had elapsed before he was given command of the Fifth Corps Area, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Just one day after assuming command May 1, he asked for and was granted immediate retirement. After one month of leave, he officially left the U.S. Army on May 31, 1936.
His homes were in Charleston, S.C., and San Antonio, Texas. Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest: "The name, peculiar to the South, is pronounced in a southern way. During all the years of my boyhood in South Carolina, I never knew there was anything unusual about it, for I never heard it in any other way than as haig'-wood. The name was originally spelled Haguewood, and is still properly so pronounced." Hagood was the nephew of Confederate Brigadier General Johnson Hagood who commanded the troops at Fort Wagner during the attack by the Massachusetts 54th Infantry and served as Governor of South Carolina from 1880-1882.
