Johnson Hagood ( general ) Major General Johnson Hagood ( June 16 , 1873 – December 22 , 1948 ) was born in Orangeburg , South Carolina , graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1896 , was commissioned in the artillery , and served in France in World War I , where he created the Services of Supply . He retired in 1936 after publicly criticizing New Deal funding . His career highlights include : DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL CITATION He represented the American Army in replying to address of Marshal Joffre , Paris , May 12 , 1918 . 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 . 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 . He was assigned to command 30th Brigade ( Ry . ) , C . A . C . , and Camp Eustis , Va . , Nov . 24 , 1919 . Commanded South Atlantic Coast Artillery District . , Nov . 1920 to Sep . 1921 . Commander , Fort Stotsenburg , P . I . , Feb . 1 , 1922 . Commander , 2d Coast Art . , Dist . , Ft . Totten , N . Y . , August 1924 . Commander , 45th ; Corps Area , Oct . 5 , 1925 to March 1927 . Commander Philippine Division , April 1927 to June 1929 . Commander , 7th Corps Area August 1929 to October 1933 . Commander , 4th Army Area 1932 - 33 . Commander , Third Army and 8th Corps Area , 1933 - 36 . Among his inventions were the Hagood tripod mount , mortar deflection board , and other apparatus connected with sea - coast defense . Major General Hagood ' s decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal , Commander of the Légion d ' honneur ( French ) , Commander Order of the Crown of Italy , Grand Officer Order of the Sacred Treasure ( Japanese ) . 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 ( headquartered at Fort Sam Houston , Texas ) . 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 . He died December 22 , 1948 . 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 spelt " Haguewood " , and is still properly so pronounced . "