Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-28
DEATH OF GEN. TH0S. JORDAN
A Gallant Confederate Soldier for Whose Head Cuba Offered S100 000-A Graduate
 of West Point.

New York Nov. 27.-Gen. Thomas Jor- dan died tonight at his late residence, No. PA East Twenty-fifth street, at lO:30 clock. Around his bedside were grouped as he breathed his last his daughter, B.. Gabrielle, and his son Edward; MT. w. J.. Marin, his legal advisor, and Col Cliff ton N. Smith, General Jordan's junior on tthe staff of General Beauregard. The general passed peacefully away. He was unconscious apparently since Tuesday. The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock Friday morning at the Church of St. Francis M. Xavier.
 In addition to the honorary pall-bearers the Confederate veteran camp will send guard of honor. The Cuban junta will pay a similar tribute of respect.
 Brigadier-General Thomas Jordan was born at Luray, Va, September 30, 182l, both parents being of old revolutionary stock. A maternal grand uncle, A. With CTS of South Carolina, had served on the staff of General Sumter. It was family tradition that the Jordans were kinS- men of the Washingtons in England Thomas Jordan was graduated at West Point in 1S40, one of his classmates and room mates being William Tecumseh Sherman. He entered the service at once in the infantry, and easily distinguished himself in the Seminole uprising in Flor ida from 1841 to 1843. During a portion of this year he was adjutant of his regi- ment, acting later as assistant adjutant- general of military district.
 In May, 1861, he resigned his command in the army of the United States and was appointed lieutenant-colonel in the Vir- ginia troops and assigned to the stan or Gen. Phillip St. George Cook, command ing the states forces then occupying Gull pepper Court House, General Lee being commander-in-chief of the forces of Vir- ginia.
 
 the stragetic importance of Manassas Junction and the critical necessity of occupying in force immediate. On June 3 General Beauregard took the command there and on July 21 the battle followed, known as Bull kun.
 Colonel Jordan accompanied General Beauregard thence upon his assignment to command the west During the Shi- loh and Corinth campaigns he was the adjutant-gereral of the Confederate army. and after Shiloh was promoted igader-general.
 In 1869 General Jordan consented to direct the revolutionary forces in Cuba, and was commissioned by the Cuban government as commander-in-chief, with headquarters in the field The odds against him in that campaign are now well known. Spain valued his services against her and a reward of $100.0 was offered, which she placed upon his head. Dssensions in high places making it inn possible to impress upon the revolution ary authorities the policy of concentra- tion for strategic operations, and some difference as to the achievements to be aimed at, led to General Jordans resig- nation from the hopeless undertaking, and later he escaped, out of Cuba in an open boat.
 As a professional soldier General Jor- dan's most notable merit was that evinced by him as chief of staff.
 After the war and prior to his service in Cuba General Jordan had been for a time editor of the Memphis Appeal. Af- ter his return from Cuba to New York he founded the Financial and Mining Record which, as its editor, he devoted to the merits and claims of silver coinage into lawful money. His i'll health ended the paper.
 Captain Jordan married the daughter of Edmund Kearney of Newport. N. J.
 Their surviving issue are son and a daughter.