Thomas Jordan
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Thomas Jordan (September 30, 1819 – November 27, 1895), born in Luray Valley, Virginia, was a Confederate spy in the American Civil War. In 1840, he graduated from the United States Military Academy. Jordan entered the army as second lieutenant of the Third infantry, in garrison at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and fought in the war against the Seminole Indians. As early as 1860, he began an embryonic spy network in Washington, D.C. that was active during the American Civil War. In 1861 Jordan passed control of the network to Rose O'Neal Greenhow. He later became a Yankee colonel, and fought for Cuban independence in the Ten Year War ().
External links
- Virtual American Biographies: Thomas Jordan
- Virginia Civil War: Brigadier General Thomas Jordan
- Thomas Jordan at Find-A-Grave
Sources
A detailed source for Jordan in the Cuban Ten Year War is Antonio Pirala (1895, 1896 and some from 1874) Anales de la Guerra en Cuba. Felipe González Rojas, Madrid
Some details of Jordan's tactics in Cuba and its consequences can be found only slightly fictionalized in Calixto Enamorado 1917 Tiempos. Heroicos Persecucion. Rambla, Bauza and Company, Havana. Calixto Enamorado was a Cuban General in the 1895-1898 war and was a son of Calixto Garcia [1] Template:US-hist-stubfr:Thomas Jordan