[no picture yet]

Federal (USV)

Private

James Jordan

(c. 1835 - 1878)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 12th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted on 20 June 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, 12th Ohio Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right arm and shoulder in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 16 September and Assistant Surgeon W.W. Keen Jr reported:

The ball entered the right arm just below the neck of the humerus, antero-externally, and emerged immediately below the clavicle at the junction of the outer and middle thirds, fracturing, probably, the head of the scapula ...

He had an attack of a bacterial skin infection on 7 October, but that cleared up by the 16th. He had surgery to remove a piece of bullet and damaged bone on the 23rd. He was steadily improving by the end of November and was discharged there for disability on 19 December 1862. He began receiving a veteran's pension in January 1863.

After the War

In 1873 in New York a pension examiner noted that he could not put his right hand on his head, his arm was weak, and his shoulder was immobile.

References & notes

His service basics from the Roster.1 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR,2 quoted here, and the Patient List.3 Death date from his pension card, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1835

Death

06/21/1878; New York City, NY; burial in Calvary Cemetery, Woodside, Queens, NY

Notes

1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 2, p. 359 [AotW citation 32120]

2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 505 [AotW citation 32121]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #3.672 [AotW citation 32122]

« Search for another Person