Confederate Pension Application of Jacob M. Jordan
Application for Soldier’s Pension
Under Act 1910.
Questions for Applicants to
Answer.
State of Georgia
Banks County.
I, Jacob M. Jordan, of said State
and County, hereby applies for the pension provided by Act of 1910, to
Confederate Soldiers, and submits his sworn statement, with his testimony to
make out the same, and after being duly sworn true answers to make to the questions
propounded, answers as follows, to wit:
1. What is your name and where do
you reside? (Give County and Post-Office.)
Jacob M. Jordan, Lula, Ga. R. D.
3.
2. How long and since when have
you been a continuous resident citizen of this State?
All my life in Banks County.
[Banks County was not formed until lat 1858.]
3. Did you enlist in the Army of
the Confederate States or of the Organized Militia of this State from 1861 to
1865?
In the Confederate Army.
4. When and where, and in what
Company and Regiment did you enlist? (Give the arm and class of service.)
1st Sept. 1864-Athens,
Ga.-Co. G 1st Georgia Regiment [State Troops].
5. How long did you remain in the
actual Military Service of said Company and Regiment? (Give date of discharge.)
7 months-31st March 1865.
6. When and where was your Company
and Regiment surrendered or discharged from the Service?
At Savannah, Ga.-8th April 1865.
7. Were you actually present with
your Command when it was surrendered?
No.
8. If you were not actually
present, state specifically and clearly where you were.
I was at home on sick furlough.
a. Where was your Command when you
left it?
Athens, Ga.
b. When did you leave the Command?
27th February 1865.
c. For what cause did you leave?
On sick furlough.
d. By whose authority did you
leave?
By the officers in charge.
e. For how long was your leave
granted? In what way?
For 30 days and at expiration of
that time was extended 30 days more.
f. Why did you not return to your
Command after leave expired?
Not able.
g. In what way were you prevented?
X.
h. What effort did you make to
return?
X.
i. Were you captured during the
war?
No.
j. If so, when and where? In was prison were you held and when were
you released?
Was not.
9. What property of every
description was owned, in the use, possession and control of yourself and wife,
and its cash value on the 4th Nov. 1908? (Make list by items and value.)
100 acres-$600.00, 1 Mule-$60.00,
2 Cows-$40.00
10. What property of any kind have
you or your wife disposed of and for what purpose since 4 Nov. 1908. To whom and for what price?
No disposition of any kind.
11. What property of any
description of any kind, and of any value now owned in the use, possession and control of yourself and
wife and its cash value? (Make itemized list)
See above question 9-no change.
12. What annual or monthly income
or earnings of yourself and wife and the source derived have you?
No income-I live by my exertions.
13. Are you drawing a pension of
any amount from this State or the United States?
No.
14. Have you ever applied for the
Georgia Pension and had it refused? And
for what cause it was not allowed?
I never have before.
Signed: Jacob M. Jordan
Sworn to and subscribed before me,
this the 15th day of August 1913.
T. F. Hill Ordinary of Banks
County.
Note from Pension Office dated
10-27-1913:
“Must amend and state with what he
was sick, and in what way he was effected by it and how it kept him out of
service. Command did not surrender at
Savannah, that City being in the possession of the enemy from Dec. 1864. Must prove all statements to be true by
someone who knows it is true.
J. W. Lindsey, Commissioner of
Pensions”
Typed sheet in the Pension File:
Name-Jacob M. Jordan
Year-1915
County-Banks
When and where born?-A resident of
Georgia all his life.
Enlisted when and where?-September
1 1864, Athens, Georgia.
Rank? [Blank]
Company and Regiment? Company G, 1st
Ga. Regt. Ga. State Troops.
Name of Captain and Colonel?
[Blank]
Wounded?- Left Command Feb. 27,
1865, Athens, Ga., on a 30 day sick furlough and said furlough was extended 30
days longer. Was sick with chronic
diarrhoea and was at home.
Captured, when and where?-[Blank]
Released:-[Blank]
When and where
Surrendered?-Witness states Command surrendered April 8, 1865 at Columbus,
Georgia.
If not present at Surrender, where
were you?-Was at home on an extended sick furlough.
Died, when and where?-[Blank]
Buried:[Blank]
Witnesses:- J. G.
Lewallen—Personal knowledge—No data., J. W. Dodd—Same Command—No data.
Note: Jacob M. Jordan, May 5
1847-July 22 1925 is buried at the Jordan-Crocker-Wade Cemetery on Louden Ridge
Road in Banks County, Georgia. His
wife, Sarah E. Dodd Jordan, January 25, 1847-August 25, 1917 lies beside him.
Transcribed 2006 by Jacqueline King