Interviewing Travis McDaniel for my 1864 documentary

01.13.2020 – Today I interviewed Travis McDaniel who lives near Jasper, GA for ‘1864 Documentary’. The premise of the documentary is all of the bad goings-on that were happening in Northern Georgia and Eastern Tennessee, specifically around Fannin County in Georgia and Polk County in Tennessee. 

In researching the entire story that will make up the documentary, it seems apparent that many of the events had a cause-and-effect quality to them – with one bad thing leading to the next bad thing. I have strung all of these small stories into one big story about the Chaos of 1864.

Travis and I speak in detail about his ancestor William Clayton Fain of Fannin County (His 2X Great-Grandfather’s First Cousin). Fain was execution-style murdered on April 6, 1864 while on his way to accept his commission as a Colonel in a Union Regiment. Fain, who was an attorney in Fannin County was also one of the two delegates from the county that attended the secessionists convention in Georgia’s then capitol of Milledgeville. 

So he was a well known individual when captured by a man identified in Fain’s Widow’s Pension affidavit as Captain Rogers and shot in the back of his head.

William Clayton Fain marker in Blue Ridge, Georgia