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John W. Jordan (Major in 57th Indiana infantry)

b. 1832?

Newport, Kentucky, soldier. Major in the 57th Indiana Volunteer Infantry (U.S.A.) from October 18, 1861, to November 20, 1862. Captain in the 12th Regiment, U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps from June 1864 to November 1864. Transferred to the 13th Regiment, U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps on November 25, 1864. Brevetted to lieutenant colonel on March 13, 1865.

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White

Bibliography

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana, vol. 2, 1861-1865 (Indianapolis: W. R. Holloway, State Printer, 1865), 548.
Asbury L. Kerwood, Annals of the Fifty-Seventh Regiment Indiana Volunteers: Marches, Battles, And Incidents of Army Life (Dayton: O. W. J. Shuey, 1868), 326.
_Field Record of Officers of the Veteran Reserve Corps, from the Commencement to the Close of the Rebellion (Washington, D.C.: Scrivner & Swing, 1865), 9.
United States Adjutant General’s Office, _ Official Army Register of the Volunteer Force of the United States Army for the Years 1861, '62, '63, '64, '65_, vol 8, (Washington, D.C.: 1867), 49-50.

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Jordan, John W.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199620 (November 12, 2026).

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