The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-28
A TRUE SOLDIER OF FORTUNE.
THE SWORD OF BRAVE GEN. JOR-
DAN SHEATHED FOREVER.

The Gallant VirgiRian's Life Ebbs
Out Peacefully at His Home in New
HOrk-GraduatinEa at West Point I'm
1910. He Was soon in the Thick OF
the Indian War and Next i'm the
Conflict With MexicO-HiS Blade
Next DrawP in Dixie's Defense and
Lastly in the Cause OF Cuban
Liberty.
New York. Nov. g7-Gen. Thomas Jor-
dan died tonight at 1890 o'clock at his
late residence. No. 12i East Twenty-hfth
street. Around his bedside were grouped
as he breathed his last. his daughter. Ga
brielle, and his son. Edward. w. J. Marin,
his legal adviser. and Col Clifton II.
Smith. Gen Jordan's junior on the stan
of Gen Beauugard.
The general passed peacefully away He
was unconscious, apparently since Tues
day.
The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock
Friday morning at the church of St. Fran
els Xavier.
In addition to the honorary pail bearers,
who will be appointed tomorrow. the con-
federate veteran camp will send a guard
of honor. The Cuban junta will pay a
similar tribute of respect.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Jordan was born at
Luray. Va, Sept. so. 1919. both parents
being of old revolutionary stock. A ma
ternal grand-uncle, A. Withers of South
| Carolina had served on the staff of Gen.
| Sumter 1t was a family tradition that
the Jordans were kinsmen of the Wash
ingtons in England. Thomas Jordan was
graduated at West Point in 1870, one of
his classmates and room-mates being
| William Tecumsch Sherman. He entered
| the service in the infantry and early dis
| tinguished himself in the Seminole upris-
ing in Florida in 1871 to 1S43. During
| portion of this period he was the adjutant
| general of military. While lieutenant he
served with his regiment In the Mexican
| war, taking part In the battles of PalO
Alto and Rosaca de la Palma. Later ne
was selected for captaincy on Gen Tay-
Tors stan, and was assigned to the quar-
termaSterS department, stationed at Vera
cruz, the base of operation of Gen. Scott,
from which the army drew its supplies
in the campaign which ended in the con-
quest of Mexico.
After temporary service again in Flor
ida during a second Seminole uprising.
Capt. Jordan was transferred to the
northwest territory of Mississippi. Later
he was assigned. in 1852, to special duty
at Washington, d. c.
In May, 1861. he resigned his commission
in the army of the United States and was
appointed lieutenant colonel i'm the Vir-
ginia troops and assigned to the staff OF
Gen. Philip St. George Cooke, commander
of the state forces then occupying Cur
pepper Court House, Gen. Lee being com
| mander-ln-chief of the forces of Virginia.
| Col. Jordan became convinced of the stra-
| tegetic Importance of Manassas Junction
| and the critical necessity of occupying it
| in force Immediately. On June Gen.
| Beauregard took command there and on
! July Il the battle followed known as Bul
Col. Jordan accompanied Gen. Beaure.
/ gard thence upon his assignment to COM
mand in the west to foil the suspected
/ undertakings of Gems. Halleck and Grant
/ During the Shiloh and Corinth campaigns
/ he was the adjutant general of the con-
| federate army, and after the battle OF
i Shiloh was promoted a brigadier general.
In 1869, Gen. Jordan consented to direct
the revolutionary forces in Cuba and was
commissioned by the Cuban government
/ as commander-in-chief, with headduar-
/ tiers in the field. The odds against him
/ in that campaign are now well known
Spain valued HIS services against her at
| reward of 500, 900 which she placed upon
/ his head. Discussions in high places max
! ing it impossible to impress upon the
revolutionary authorities the policy of
and some difference as to the achieve
ments to be aimed at. led to Gen. Jor-
dams resignation from the hopeless I'M
| dertaking, and later he escaped out of
| Cuba in an open boat.
As professional soldier Gen. Jor-
uan most notaDle merit is that evinced
! by him as a chief-of-staff.
After the war and prior to his service
! in Cuba, Gen Jordan had been for a
time editor of the Memphis Appeal At
! ter his return from Cuba to New York
| he founded the Financial and Mining
! Record, which, as it's editor, he devoted
to the merits and claims of silver coin
age into lawful money. His ill-health
| ended the paper.
Capt. Jordan married the daughter of
| Edmund Kearney of Keyport n j.
Their surviving issue are a son and
daughter.