However he does not appear in the roster for the 5th Cavalry, but there is another by a similar name in the 4th Infantry Battalion.
Drary H. Strickland
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Private (date unknown).
"E" Co. LA 4th Battn Infantry
In checking his cards in the Compiled Service Records, there is only one for him in the 4th Battalion files. This is a reference card which notes:
"See also Drury H. Strickland, 22 Ala. Inf."
There we find that Private Drury H. STrickland, served in Company E, 22nd Allabama Infantry. In his file are 11 cards which deal only with his POW history following capture near Atlanta, Georgia August 3,1864. These records may be obtained through the service noted above.
Drury H. Strickland
Residence was not listed;
Enlisted as a Private (date unknown).
"E" Co. AL 22nd Infantry
The Twenty-second was organized at Montgomery in November 1861, and was encamped at Mobile during the winter. Ordered to west Tennessee, and brigaded under Gen. Gladden of Louisiana, the regiment was engaged at Shiloh with very heavy loss. After that battle, Gen. Frank Gardner was placed over the brigade - Nineteenth, Twent-second, Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth-Fiftieth, and Thirty-ninth Alabama regiments - and led it into Kentucky. It was present at Mumfordsville, and skirmished at Perryville. It came back with the army, and fought at Murfreesboro with severe loss. Gen. Deas then assumed command of the brigade. The regiment was in the splendid line of battle which moved to the assault of Rosecrans' army at Chicamauga, and lost five color-bearers, and 175 killed and wounded out of about 400 men. The Twenty-second suffered lightly at Mission Ridge, and wintered at Dalton. It participated in the campaign from Dalton to Atlanta, losing gradually by the constant fighting, the brigade being under Gen. Johnston of Perry a short time. At Atlanta, July 22nd and 28th the loss of the regiment was quite severe, and large at Jonesboro. It moved into Tennessee with Gen. Hood, and suffered severely at Franklin, and lightly at Nashville. Transferred beyond the Edisto, the Twenty-second moved into North Carolina, skirmishing with the advance of Thomas' army. The loss at Kinston and Bentonville was light, Colonel Toulmin leading the brigade. Consolidated with the Twenty-fifth, Thirty-ninth, and Twenty-sixth-Fiftieth, at Smithville, with H.T. Toulmin as colonel, N.B. Rouse of Butler as lieutenant colonel, and Robert Donald of Limestone as major, the regiment laid down its arms at Greenesboro, N.C., April 1865.
George Martin