Tyler Calhoun Jordan

Home State: Virginia
Command Billet: Battery Commander
Branch of Service: Artillery
Unit: Jordan's Bedford (VA) Artillery

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He helped organize the battery, and was the first commander as Captain in May 1861 when the unit mustered into Confederate service as the Bedford Light Artillery.

After the War:
By 1869 he was in Dallas, Texas, and by 1871 was in banking there - founding T. C. Jordan & Co.. the first banking institution established in Dallas. By 1874 he was in Somervell Co., Texas where he helped found the county of Somervell. He was in Maricopa, Arizona Territory by 1897.
(from family geneology)

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