Carroll County GaArchives Biographies.....STRICKLAND, HENRY H. 1842 - 
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Author: S. Emmett Lucas, Jr.
HENRY H. STRICKLAND, farmer, Carrollton, Carroll Co., Ga., son of John M. and 
Sarah (Knight) Strickland, was born in Coweta county in 1842. His father was 
born in Butts county, Ga., in 1811 and his mother was a daughter of John 
Knight. Mr. Strickland was reared on the farm and received a good common 
school education. In 1861 he enlisted in Company B (Capt., afterward Co. 
Ector) Thirteenth Georgia regiment, and was first W Gen. Lawton’s brigade, 
then in Gen. J. B. Gordons and lastly in Gen. Clement A. Evans'. He was with 
Gen. Evans when the following incident occurred: Gen. Evans received an order 
from Gen. Lee to assault and capture a certain position, but afterward, 
believing it too hazardous, Gen. Lee countermanded the order. When Gen. Evans 
received the first order he made the assault and received the counter order in 
the captured position. Mr. Strickland was in the battles at Cotton hill, 
Martinsburg, Winchester, Cedar run, the seven days' fight, Spottsylvania court 
house, Sharpsburg and second Manassas, and in innumerable skirmishes in the 
valley, at one thirty days of almost continuous fighting. He was wounded three 
times--at Sharpsburg, Cedar run and second Manassas--one wound disabling him 
for nearly three months, but he escaped capture. 
After the war he attended Bowdon college two years and a half, afterward 
taught school three years and then engaged in fanning, at which he has 
prospered, owns a fine landed estate, including a farm and property in Bowdon. 
Mr. Strickland was married in 1871 to Miss Mary E. Camp, born in Coweta 
county, daughter of G. W. and Mary A.(Colbert) Camp, and to them ten children 
have been born: Maud, George, Henry, John, Sallie, Lillian, Colbert, Lee, 
Warner and Katie. Mr. and Mrs. Strickland and all of their children save 
Sallie, are members of the Methodist Episcopal church south, and Mr. 
Strickland is a Master Mason. He has honestly obtained the high estimation in 
which he is held.


Additional Comments:
From the Book, "Memoirs of Georgia", Historical and Biographical Sketches, 
published in 1896

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