The Alabama Archives has some letters to his wife online of "Orderly" A.M. Jordan. i say Orderly because that is what he called himself. I do not know what an Orderly was. More of a diary really, a lot of it is when the 23rd Regiment, of which he was Company F, occupied Knoxville at the University of Tennessee (the archive description inaccurately states Nashville). Since my great great grandfather Robert McDaniel and his brother Joel was in Company F, I know from these letters he walked some of the same places I walked when I attended college there, which is very personally interesting to me. I located Thomas McDaniel's estate (128 pages, it went on forever) in what is now Crenshaw County but was Southeast Lowndes County at the time (he died 1861) and am trying to find out what happened to Robert and where they are buried. I found Captain S.O. Meriwether's grave in Hayneville (next door neighbor). There were some Jordans next to Merriwether on the 1860 census, but not an A.M. Jordan. I suspect the Jordans, Merriwethers and McDaniels were neighbors and if I can find Jordan's grave I may find the others.

Was wondering if anyone knew whatever happened to Orderly A.M. Jordan. He seemed such a fine gentleman in his journal; very much in love with his wife; very much against taking advantage of citizens, regardless of which side. I hope he survived the war. Does anyone know?