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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Francis Marion Jordan

(1831 - 1869)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 3rd Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 29 year old farmer living near Webster Place in Elbert County, GA. He enlisted in Augusta, GA on 26 April 1861 and mustered there on 29 April as a Private in Company G, 3rd Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 10 October, furloughed for 30 days on 26 October, and was formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 18 October 1864 and was listed as absent without lave in February 1865, the latest record in his military file.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, also as F.M. Jordan, 32nd Georgia. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

03/15/1831; Elbert County, GA

Death

11/22/1869; burial in Holly Springs Baptist Church Cemetery, Bowman, GA

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 34383]

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: #380 [AotW citation 34384]

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