Jordan (Jordon), Dennis Rivers
Private, Company B., 37th. Alabama Vol. Infantry
Age at Enlistment: 17
Enlisted 15 March 1862 in Captain L.P. Hamner's Company of Volunteers at Daviston AL by Captain Hamner "For three years or the duration of the war.";
Appears on Muster Roll of Hamner's Company (Company B) dated 13 May 1862 at Auburn AL;
WIA/POW at Corinth MS 3-5 Oct 1862;
Exchanged 18 Nov 1862;
Son of Christopher E. ("Kit") Jordan also of Company B;
Family account holds that at some point during the war he returned home to his mother (Mary Ann Knowls Jordan) who told him, "... he couldn't go back and fight because he was her youngest son and she wasn't going to let him ..." instead it was her desire that he go to South America to escape the war. The family knew people that had gone to South America and he could go to medical school. En route to his destination and while on the Mississippi River his transportation was captured and he was pressed into Union Service, "... told he was going to fight for them or he would be shot or put in prison ...";
Dennis Rivers Jordan, "Volunteered" and was enlisted in Co. F of the 15th Maine Regt. (USA) on 1 March 1864 at Morganzia, LA (located on the Mississippi River) by Capt. Laurens J. Joyce;
Enlistment form states he was 2l yrs old (he was 19), a laborer, and was born in Brunswick, Maine (he was born in Chambers Co, AL), further that he was mustered in for the town of Brunswick, Maine for three years;
On muster roll for March and April 1865 he is listed as a Corporal, but on May and June 1865 roll he was reduced to rank of private by order of Col. Dyer;
Hospitalized for illness in DeCamp General Hospital at New York Harbor in Nov and Dec of 1865 where he signed for clothing and pay;
Discharged 6 Dec 1865 at New York, NY by an order of the (U.S.) War Dept, but has a Company muster-out roll dated 5 July 1866 at Charleston, SC.;
In May 1891 he applied for a U.S. Pension #779191 wherein he states "I received a gun shot wound in the left thigh in Georgetown, SC in the year 1865 during the month of Sept or Oct from the accidental discharge of a soldiers gun while cleaning it, after coming off guard duty. I was sent to a hospital somewhere on the coast in Georgia from there to David's Island Hospital in the State of NY from which I was discharged from the effects of said wound on the 6th day of Dec AD 1865" signed /s/ Dennis R. Jordan;
At "enlistment" in U.S. Service described as Height 5'6", Eyes blue, Hair brown, Complexion light;
Appears in the 1890 Veterans Census of Texas with Union Army affiliation with 15th Maine Reg.;
No Dates
Private, Company B., 37th. Alabama Vol. Infantry
Age at Enlistment: 17
Enlisted 15 March 1862 in Captain L.P. Hamner's Company of Volunteers at Daviston AL by Captain Hamner "For three years or the duration of the war.";
Appears on Muster Roll of Hamner's Company (Company B) dated 13 May 1862 at Auburn AL;
WIA/POW at Corinth MS 3-5 Oct 1862;
Exchanged 18 Nov 1862;
Son of Christopher E. ("Kit") Jordan also of Company B;
Family account holds that at some point during the war he returned home to his mother (Mary Ann Knowls Jordan) who told him, "... he couldn't go back and fight because he was her youngest son and she wasn't going to let him ..." instead it was her desire that he go to South America to escape the war. The family knew people that had gone to South America and he could go to medical school. En route to his destination and while on the Mississippi River his transportation was captured and he was pressed into Union Service, "... told he was going to fight for them or he would be shot or put in prison ...";
Dennis Rivers Jordan, "Volunteered" and was enlisted in Co. F of the 15th Maine Regt. (USA) on 1 March 1864 at Morganzia, LA (located on the Mississippi River) by Capt. Laurens J. Joyce;
Enlistment form states he was 2l yrs old (he was 19), a laborer, and was born in Brunswick, Maine (he was born in Chambers Co, AL), further that he was mustered in for the town of Brunswick, Maine for three years;
On muster roll for March and April 1865 he is listed as a Corporal, but on May and June 1865 roll he was reduced to rank of private by order of Col. Dyer;
Hospitalized for illness in DeCamp General Hospital at New York Harbor in Nov and Dec of 1865 where he signed for clothing and pay;
Discharged 6 Dec 1865 at New York, NY by an order of the (U.S.) War Dept, but has a Company muster-out roll dated 5 July 1866 at Charleston, SC.;
In May 1891 he applied for a U.S. Pension #779191 wherein he states "I received a gun shot wound in the left thigh in Georgetown, SC in the year 1865 during the month of Sept or Oct from the accidental discharge of a soldiers gun while cleaning it, after coming off guard duty. I was sent to a hospital somewhere on the coast in Georgia from there to David's Island Hospital in the State of NY from which I was discharged from the effects of said wound on the 6th day of Dec AD 1865" signed /s/ Dennis R. Jordan;
At "enlistment" in U.S. Service described as Height 5'6", Eyes blue, Hair brown, Complexion light;
Appears in the 1890 Veterans Census of Texas with Union Army affiliation with 15th Maine Reg.;
No Dates
Jordan (Jordon), Dennis Rivers
Private, Company B., 37th. Alabama Vol. Infantry
Age at Enlistment: 17
Enlisted 15 March 1862 in Captain L.P. Hamner's Company of Volunteers at Daviston AL by Captain Hamner "For three years or the duration of the war.";
Appears on Muster Roll of Hamner's Company (Company B) dated 13 May 1862 at Auburn AL;
WIA/POW at Corinth MS 3-5 Oct 1862;
Exchanged 18 Nov 1862;
Son of Christopher E. ("Kit") Jordan also of Company B;
Family account holds that at some point during the war he returned home to his mother (Mary Ann Knowls Jordan) who told him, "... he couldn't go back and fight because he was her youngest son and she wasn't going to let him ..." instead it was her desire that he go to South America to escape the war. The family knew people that had gone to South America and he could go to medical school. En route to his destination and while on the Mississippi River his transportation was captured and he was pressed into Union Service, "... told he was going to fight for them or he would be shot or put in prison ...";
Dennis Rivers Jordan, "Volunteered" and was enlisted in Co. F of the 15th Maine Regt. (USA) on 1 March 1864 at Morganzia, LA (located on the Mississippi River) by Capt. Laurens J. Joyce;
Enlistment form states he was 2l yrs old (he was 19), a laborer, and was born in Brunswick, Maine (he was born in Chambers Co, AL), further that he was mustered in for the town of Brunswick, Maine for three years;
On muster roll for March and April 1865 he is listed as a Corporal, but on May and June 1865 roll he was reduced to rank of private by order of Col. Dyer;
Hospitalized for illness in DeCamp General Hospital at New York Harbor in Nov and Dec of 1865 where he signed for clothing and pay;
Discharged 6 Dec 1865 at New York, NY by an order of the (U.S.) War Dept, but has a Company muster-out roll dated 5 July 1866 at Charleston, SC.;
In May 1891 he applied for a U.S. Pension #779191 wherein he states "I received a gun shot wound in the left thigh in Georgetown, SC in the year 1865 during the month of Sept or Oct from the accidental discharge of a soldiers gun while cleaning it, after coming off guard duty. I was sent to a hospital somewhere on the coast in Georgia from there to David's Island Hospital in the State of NY from which I was discharged from the effects of said wound on the 6th day of Dec AD 1865" signed /s/ Dennis R. Jordan;
At "enlistment" in U.S. Service described as Height 5'6", Eyes blue, Hair brown, Complexion light;
Appears in the 1890 Veterans Census of Texas with Union Army affiliation with 15th Maine Reg.;
No Dates
Private, Company B., 37th. Alabama Vol. Infantry
Age at Enlistment: 17
Enlisted 15 March 1862 in Captain L.P. Hamner's Company of Volunteers at Daviston AL by Captain Hamner "For three years or the duration of the war.";
Appears on Muster Roll of Hamner's Company (Company B) dated 13 May 1862 at Auburn AL;
WIA/POW at Corinth MS 3-5 Oct 1862;
Exchanged 18 Nov 1862;
Son of Christopher E. ("Kit") Jordan also of Company B;
Family account holds that at some point during the war he returned home to his mother (Mary Ann Knowls Jordan) who told him, "... he couldn't go back and fight because he was her youngest son and she wasn't going to let him ..." instead it was her desire that he go to South America to escape the war. The family knew people that had gone to South America and he could go to medical school. En route to his destination and while on the Mississippi River his transportation was captured and he was pressed into Union Service, "... told he was going to fight for them or he would be shot or put in prison ...";
Dennis Rivers Jordan, "Volunteered" and was enlisted in Co. F of the 15th Maine Regt. (USA) on 1 March 1864 at Morganzia, LA (located on the Mississippi River) by Capt. Laurens J. Joyce;
Enlistment form states he was 2l yrs old (he was 19), a laborer, and was born in Brunswick, Maine (he was born in Chambers Co, AL), further that he was mustered in for the town of Brunswick, Maine for three years;
On muster roll for March and April 1865 he is listed as a Corporal, but on May and June 1865 roll he was reduced to rank of private by order of Col. Dyer;
Hospitalized for illness in DeCamp General Hospital at New York Harbor in Nov and Dec of 1865 where he signed for clothing and pay;
Discharged 6 Dec 1865 at New York, NY by an order of the (U.S.) War Dept, but has a Company muster-out roll dated 5 July 1866 at Charleston, SC.;
In May 1891 he applied for a U.S. Pension #779191 wherein he states "I received a gun shot wound in the left thigh in Georgetown, SC in the year 1865 during the month of Sept or Oct from the accidental discharge of a soldiers gun while cleaning it, after coming off guard duty. I was sent to a hospital somewhere on the coast in Georgia from there to David's Island Hospital in the State of NY from which I was discharged from the effects of said wound on the 6th day of Dec AD 1865" signed /s/ Dennis R. Jordan;
At "enlistment" in U.S. Service described as Height 5'6", Eyes blue, Hair brown, Complexion light;
Appears in the 1890 Veterans Census of Texas with Union Army affiliation with 15th Maine Reg.;
No Dates
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