Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina
Clement Anselm Evans, Ed.

George W. Jordan, M. D., of Rodman, Chester county, formerly surgeon in the Confederate States service, was born near his present home in 1835. His father, Uriah Jordan, was a native of South Carolina, a physician and farmer, and his grandfather, Henry Jordan, one of the early settlers of Landsford, was a native of Virginia. His mother, Margaret, was the daughter of Robert Robinson, a native of Ireland who settled in the Fishing Creek district and became a member of the legislature and county sheriff. Dr. Jordan was educated at the Mount Zion school and South Carolina college, and then entering upon the study of medicine, was graduated at the university of New York in 1859. He began the practice in his native county, but abandoned it in April, 1861, to enlist in Company A, Sixth volunteers, with which he served near Charleston. Mr. Jordan heard the first gun of the war, when it was fired upon Fort Sumter. In July at Summerville he re-enlisted in the Confederate States service, and reaching Manassas Junction as the great battle of 1861 came to a close, had the pleasure of first seeing President Davis. He fought in the ranks at Williamsburg and Seven Pines, and was then upon detail as hospital steward in the field hospital until he rejoined the company as it was crossing the Potomac coming back from Sharpsburg. He took part in the battle of Fredericksburg, and accompanied his regiment to Southern Virginia, where he was detailed for three months at a small-pox hospital. Rejoining his regiment he took part in the Georgia and Tennessee campaign up to the fight at Bull's Gap, when he was commissioned surgeon and assigned to Vaughn's brigade of mounted infantry. He had medical charge of the Fifty-ninth Tennessee regiment during the remainder of the war. At the battle of Piedmont he was captured, but was at once released to take charge of 110 wounded at Staunton. He was with his regiment in Early's campaign through Maryland to Washington, and in the valley campaign of 1864 until October, when his command was transferred to east Tennessee. In April, 1865, he was ordered to join General Lee at Lynchburg, but the surrender occurred before he could do so, and he soon afterward received orders by courier to join President Davis at Charlotte. Arriving there, as he was familiar with the country he was sent with dispatches to General Bragg, and was given ten