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. By 1847, he had risen to the rank of captain.

As early as 1860, he began a Confederate 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. In May 1861, Jordan resigned from the Union Army and became a Confederate army lieutenant colonel, later being promoted to brigadier general.

In May 1869, Gordan landed in Cuba with 300 men, and arms, ammunition and supplies for 6,000 men. In December 1869, Gordan became military head of the Cuban mambi warriors fighting for Cuban independence from Spain in the Ten Years' War. Short of supplies, Gordan resigned from his Cuban post in February 1870 and returned to the U.S.

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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 [link]

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