(1838 - 1894)
Home State: Virginia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 19th Virginia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
Age 23, he mustered as Private in Company K, 19th Virginia Infantry on 20 May 1861 at Hillsboro, VA.
On the Campaign
He was captured in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain, MD on 14 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was paroled on 20 September 1862 at Keedysville, MD and returned to duty about 15 August 1863. He was last listed on the Company Roll in August 1864.
After the War
By 1870 he was a farmer in Fredericksville Parish, Albemarle County, VA.
References & notes
His service from Jordan1 via the Historical Data Systems database. His capture on South Mountain from the Memorial History of the John Bowie Strange Camp, United Confederate Veterans (1920). Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Georgianna E. "Georgie" Maupin (1839-1882) in 1865 and they had 7 children. He married again, in 1884, to Anne E. Rothwell (1843-1899).
Birth
1838
Death
1894; burial in Mount Moriah Methodist Church Cemetery, White Hall, VA
1 Jordan, Jr., Ervin I., and H. A. Thomas, Jr., 19th Virginia Infantry, Lynchburg: H.E. Howard, Inc., 1987 [AotW citation 24150]