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Federal (USV)

Private

Willis Tappan Jordan

(1838 - 1912)

Home State: Maine

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 7th Maine Infantry

Before Antietam

Son of a Congregational clergyman, in 1860 he was a 21 year old mechanic living with his parents and 3 younger siblings in Andover, ME. He enlisted on 27 July 1861, and was a just-married 23 year old joiner at Presque Isle, ME when he mustered as a Private in Company I, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

On the Campaign

He was severely wounded in the side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to Corporal, date not given, and was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863. He transferred to the Invalid Corps (Veteran Reserve Corps) on 23 March 1864.

After the War

In 1880 he was an American Express agent in St. Paul, MN. By 1900 he was in Everett, WA and in 1910 was living with his son Thomas and was a bookkeeper at the courthouse in Olympia, WA.

References & notes

Casualty information from Hyde.1. His service from the Maine Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his middle name as Tappen, and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Chamberlain Brett (1838-1867) the day he mustered into service - 21 August 1861. He married again, Mary Ann Hayes (1846-1934) in August 1871 in Minnesota, and they had 3 children; only their first-born Thomas Percival Jordan (1872-1913) survived childhood.

Birth

08/18/1838; Dixfield, ME

Death

02/08/1912; Olympia, WA; burial in Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, WA

Notes

1   Hyde, Thomas W., Casualties in the Seventh Maine Regiment in the Battle of Antietam, Lewiston Falls (Maine) Journal, 1862-10-02  [AotW citation 6682]

2   State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863, Appendix D, pg. 275  [AotW citation 29347]

3   State of Maine, Maine State Archives, Civil War Soldiers and Sailors Card Index, 1861-1865, Augusta (ME): Department of the Secretary of State, c. 2000  [AotW citation 29348]