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Federal (USA)

Private

Michael Jordan

(1827 - 1903)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd United States Infantry

Before Antietam

A 28 year old farmer, he enlisted in Philadelphia on 6 June 1861 as a Private in Company K, 3rd United States Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right knee in action at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863. He reenlisted in New York City on 28 March 1864 but was discharged on 3 June 1864.

After the War

He was living in Camden, NJ by 1893 and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Soldier's Home in Erie on 4 August 1903. He died there 4 days later.

References & notes

His service from the Registers,1 with further details and his personal information from the Record Books.2

Birth

03/14/1827; County Louth, IRELAND

Death

08/08/1903; Erie, PA

Notes

1 US Army, Registers of Enlistments in the United States Army, 1798-1914, Washington, DC: National Archives, 1956, Vol. 142, p. 390 [AotW citation 31258]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Military and Veterans Affairs, Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home in Erie, Patient Record Books, 1886-1949, 14 volumes, Erie: Pennsylvania Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, 1886-1949, Vol. 6, p. 28 [AotW citation 31259]

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