James Hagan (Confederate colonel)
James Hagan was a United States Army captain during the MexicanAmerican War and a Confederate States Army colonel during the American Civil War . He was a prosperous businessman and planter at Mobile, Alabama between the wars.
James Hagan was born in County Tyrone, Ireland on June 17, 1822. His family moved to a farm near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania when he was still at an early age. He was educated at Clermont Academy in Philadelphia. He moved to Alabama in 1837. His prosperous uncle, John Hagen of New Orleans, Louisiana, took him into the family business and set him up in Mobile, Alabama to manage the Hagan business there.
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