Willis Tappan Jordan

Son of a Congregational clergyman, in 1860 he was a 21 year old mechanic living with his parents and 3 younger siblings in Andover, ME. He enlisted on 27 July 1861, and was a just-married 23 year old joiner at Presque Isle, ME when he mustered as a Private in Company I, 7th Maine Infantry on 21 August 1861.

He was severely wounded in the side in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Corporal, date not given, and was wounded again, at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863. He transferred to the Invalid Corps (Veteran Reserve Corps) on 23 March 1864.

In 1880 he was an American Express agent in St. Paul, MN. By 1900 he was in Everett, WA and in 1910 was living with his son Thomas and was a bookkeeper at the courthouse in Olympia, WA.

Casualty information from Hyde.1. His service from the Maine Adjutant General2 and the Card File.3 Personal details from family genealogists, at least one of whom has his middle name as Tappen, and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Chamberlain Brett (1838-1867) the day he mustered into service - 21 August 1861. He married again, Mary Ann Hayes (1846-1934) in August 1871 in Minnesota, and they had 3 children; only their first-born Thomas Percival Jordan (1872-1913) survived childhood.

08/18/1838; Dixfield, ME

02/08/1912; Olympia, WA; burial in Masonic Memorial Park, Tumwater, WA