Digital Library | Historical Society of Pennsylvania : Volume/Folder : Thomas Jefferson Jordan Civil War correspondence, 1863 [May-June] [11560]

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Thomas Jefferson Jordan Civil War correspondence, 1863 [May-June]

Permanent ID:

11560

Date:

1863

Image Description:

The letters of brevet brigadier general Thomas Jefferson Jordan, 9th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers (also known as the Lochiel Cavalry) are mostly to his wife, Jane Jordan. The majority of Jordan's letters were written in Tennessee and Kentucky where the 9th was stationed for most of the war, and contain personal observations on the social and economic conditions of the region, as well as descriptions of the 9th's numerous skirmishes with the Confederate cavalry led by John Hunt Morgan and Nathan Bedford Forrest. Jordan's letters also record the role played by his regiment in the invasion of Georgia, Sherman's March to the Sea, and the Carolina campaigns. The battles at Thompson's Station, Tullahoma, Averasboro, and Bentonville are among the larger engagements described by Jordan.

Folder 12 includes descriptoions of skirmishes around Murfreesboro, and of note is a letter in which Jordan sends an ambrotype of his slave Jerry to his wife, and explains their relationship.

Only Jordan's letters to his wife Jane are digitized here, but some of Jordan's correspondence with others remains in the collection.

Format:

Correspondence

Collection:

Thomas J. Jordan Civil War Letters