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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James T. Jordan

(c. 1842 - 1862)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old student living with his parents and 7 siblings on their small farm at Pine Hill/Prairie Bluff, Wilcox County, AL. He enlisted on 6 July 1861 at Bridgeport, AL and mustered as a Private in Company A of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and was mortally wounded by a gunshot at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the 3rd Alabama Hospital in Richmond, VA on 6 October and died there of wounds on 15 October 1862. His father Hampton filed for his final pay in August 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, also as James F. Jordan, and from the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1842; Wilcox County, AL

Death

10/15/1862; Richmond, VA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32683]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32684]

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