Jordan enlisted as a private on May 16, 1861 in Co. F of the 27th NC Infantry. He was promoted to corporal on July 1, 1861. In August 1861, he was transferred to Co. C of the 2nd NC Cavalry as a private. In 1862, he was detailed for a while as ordnance sergeant and to the quartermasters department. Jordan was wounded in the right shoulder on June 9, 1863 at the Battle of Brandy Station and was hospitalized at Chimborazo in Richmond, VA.. He was promoted to second lieutenant on December 15, 1863 and to adjutant for the regiment on August 3, 1864. He surrendered at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
After the war, he became a Methodist minister serving in the Virginia Conference until 1911. Jordan died in 1914.
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