The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-12-04
Death Of Gen. Thomas Jordan.

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Jordan died tonight at his late resi-
dence, No. 124 East Twenty-ffth street,
at 1920 clock. Around his bedside
we're grouped, as he breathed his last,
his daughter, Gabrielle, and his son,
Edward, Mr.. W. J. Marin his legal
adviser, and Col. Clifton H. Smith,
General Jordan Junior on the staff
Of General Beauregard. The general
passed peacefully away. He was un-
conscious apparently since Tuesday.
The funeral will be held at 10 o clock
Friday morning at the church of st.
Francis Xavier.
In addition to the honorary pail
bearers who will be appointed to-mor-
row, the Confederate veteran camp
will send guard Of honor. The Cuban
Junta will pay similar tribute of re-
spect.
Brig. Gen. Thomas Jordan was born
at Luray, Va, Sept. 90, 1919, both
parents being old Revolutionary stock.
A maternal grand-uucle, Withers of
South Carolina, had served on the
staff of General Sumpter. 1t was
family tradition that the Jordan 8 were
kinsmen Of the Washingtons in Eng
land. Thomas Jordan was graduated
at West Pointin 1840, one Of his class
mates AMI room mates being William
Tecumseh Sherman. He entered the
service at once in the infantry and
early distinguished himself in the
Seminole uprising in Florida-1841 to
1843. During portion of this period
he was the adjutant Of his regiment,
acting later as assistant adjutant gen.
eral Of a military district. ~.
While still lieutenant, he served
with his regiment in the Mexican war,
taking part in the battles of Paloalto
and Rasacade la Palma. His company,
with three others, constituted the first
battalion to cross the Rio Grande as a
cover to the crossing of; General Tay-
lor' s army into Mexico. Later he was
selected for captaincy on the generals s
staff, was assigned to the quartermas-
ter's department stationed at Vera
Cruz, the base Of, operations Of Gen
,eral Scott, from which the army drew
Fits supplies in the campaign which
ended in the conquest Of Mexico.
After temporary service again in
Florida during second Seminole up
rising, Captain Jordan was transferred
to the northwestern territory beyond
the Mississippi; later was assigned, in
1852, to special duty in Washington,
Id. C.. Still later under Col. George
Wright. he took part in the campaign
against the Indians on the Pacific
slope, acting there as quartermaster
| and so efficiently as to be again COM
mended highly.
In May, 1861, he resigned his COM
mission in the army Of the United
States and was appointed colonel in
the Virginia troops and assigned to
the staff of Gen. Philip St. George
Cooke, commanding the State forces
then occupying Culpepper, General
Lee being commander-in-chief of the
forces Of Virginia. Colonel Jordan
became convinced of the strategic i'm
portance of Manassas Junction and
the critical necessity Of occupying it
in force Immediately. On June 3,
General Beauregard took command
there and on July 81, the battle fol-
lowed known as Bull Run. Colonel
Jordan accompanied General Beaure--
gard thence upon his assignment to-
command in the west to foil the sus-
pected undertakings Of Halleck and
Grant. During the Shiloh and Corinth
campaignsa he was adjutant general Of
the Confederate army and after Shiloh
was promoted brigadicr general.
In 1869 General Jordans 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 we'll known. Spain valued
his services against her at reward of
800, 900, which she placed upon his
head. Dissensions in high places
making it impossible to impress upon
the revolutionary authorities the policy
Of concentration for stragetic opera
tions and some difference as to the
achievements to be aimed at, led to
General Jordan resignation from the
hopeless undertaking, and later he
escaped from Cuba in an open boat.
AS professional soldier, General
Jordan's most notable merit is that
evinced by him as chief Of staff.
After the war and prior to his SER
vice in Cuba, General Jordan had been
for time editor of the Memphis Ap-
peal. After 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 ill-health ended the
paper.
IL. J..L