US U27, 3¢ star-die, tied neat KINGSTON / GA. // FEB / 15 [1861] cds on USPOD watermarked entire to J.E. Hagood, Esq., Pickens C.H., S.C. Confederate Use of US Postage. Plantation Collection. $250.

James Earle Hagood (1826-1904) was in the mercantile business and Clerk of Circuit Court during the War, frequently called upon to perform services for soldiers away in the army and their families; after the war, he read law and was admitted to the bar. He was one of six commissioners appointed in 1868 to select a site for the present town of Pickens. His family papers are in the University of South Carolina Library Manuscript Collection.