James Bell Jordan
James Bell Jordan was born around 1839 in North Carolina. By 1860, he was living in Tennessee. He returned to North Carolina during the secession crisis, and on May 1861, he received a commission as a 1st lieutenant in Company D of the 26th North Carolina Infantry. According to his service records, he was 5 feet, 10 inches tall, with light hair and grey eyes. The regiment took part in the Seven Days’ Battles and the Battle of Gettysburg. Union forces captured him at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863, and imprisoned him on Johnson’s Island in Ohio. He remained in prison until June 12, 1865.
He married Martha Fearns in the 1860s, and they had at least two children: Samuel, born around 1868; and Catherine, born around 1869. He settled in Milton, Kentucky, after the war and earned a living as a farmer. They moved to Volusia County, Florida, in the 1870s. Around 1888, he became clerk of the circuit court. He died around 1899.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (3171) | Jordan, James Bell | 1839 | 1899 |
- Conflict Side: Confederacy
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: 1st Lieutenant
- Rank out: 1st Lieutenant
- Rank highest: 1st Lieutenant
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (3762) [writer] ~ James B. Jordan to Martha E. Fearn, 30 June 1865
People - Records: 1
- (3171) Jordan, James Bell is the [husband of] (3172) Fearn, Martha E.
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (895) [officer] [D] ~ 26th North Carolina Infantry
SOURCES
1870 and 1880 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Military Service Records of James B. Jordan, available from Fold3.com; Histories of the Several Regiments and Battalions from North Carolina in the Great War, 1861-1865, Vol. 2, ed. Walter Clark (Goldsboro, NC: Nash Brothers, n.d.)
