William Strickland - Madison County, GA Submitted by Charlotte Bond 2 Jul 2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ******************************************************************* STRICKLAND, William Born: 1816, Danielsville, Madison Co, GA Spouce: PORTERFIELD, Martha Born: 1819, Madison Co, GA Marriage: 15 Nov 1835, Danielsville, Madison Co, GA Children: Tolbert, Allen, Henry, Nancy, Elisha, Zachery, Emma Living Descendant: Charlotte collins Bond, 602 Collins-Dudley RD, Danielsville, GA 30633 WILLIAM STRICKLAND William Strickland was the son of Ephriam & Nancy Daniel Strickland. He was born 1816 in Madison County, Ga. He married Martha Porterfiled on 11-15-1835 in Madison County. She was the daughter of James & Tabitha Bond Porterfield. There is no record of William's death. I have never been able to find William's Civil War records, though I know that he did serve because my grandmother, Linnie Teate, his granddaughter, told me about it. I obtained a photo of William from a distant relative a few years ago. It sits in a frame among other ancestors near my T.V. set. Last year as I was watching Ken Burnes THE CIVIL WAR, I saw William with a group of soldiers in Hagerstown, Maryland. I later taped the section that showed William. I have shown it to dozens of people & they all agree that the man shown on the video is the same man in my photograph. The narrator showed a Maryland newspaper with the following headlines: THE MARYLAND INVASION: The rebels reported to have advanced to Hagerstown in force. Lee led 40,000 soldiers across the Potomac on Union soil. Lee's target was the Federal Rail Center at Harrisburg, Pa. A lady narrator talked of what she saw. "They were the dirtiest men I ever saw, this body of men moving along with no order; their guns carried in every fashion, their officers hardly distinguishable from the privates. They were the most ragged, lean and hungry set of wolves and yet there was a dash about them that the northern men lacked". In Ken Burns photo, there were 7 men. Four men were standing to the left of William. Three of them were in uniform. To the right of him were 2 soldiers; only one was in uniform. William was seated on a platform of some kind & all the others were standing. All were wearing bill caps except William. He was wearing a hat with a wide round rim; the very same hat he was wearing in my photo. He was not in uniform. Out of the 7 men only 4 were in uniform.