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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Jordan Reynolds

(c. 1827 - 1862)

Home State: South Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 18th South Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 34, from Cedar Bluff in the Union District, SC, he enlisted there on 13 December 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 18th South Carolina Infantry. He re-enlisted at Charleston, SC on 5 April 1862.

On the Campaign

He was captured at Boonsboro, MD on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was admitted to the hospital at Camp Winder in Richmond, VA on 14 October and died there of chronic dysentery on 17 October 1862.

His widow Jane filed a claim for his final pay of $64.23 (or $55.89) in November 1863, which was probably paid in September 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as Jordan or Jerrit Runnels. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

Birth

c. 1827; Jasper County, GA

Death

10/17/1862; 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 34216]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #104 [AotW citation 34217]

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