24th Regiment

Richard J. Jordon

According to his obituary, Richard Jordan was born a slave near Macon, Georgia around 1838.[1] Later Census records would also indicate birth years of 1840 and 1841. His whereabouts are unknown until the Civil War, but it is assumed he remained enslaved in Georgia during that time.

Robert Alfred Parker

Robert Alfred Parker, son of George and Elizabeth Andrews Parker, was born in Franklin County, Pennsylvania in 1846. He and his family first lived in Franklin County, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; in 1860, he and his family moved to Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.1 According to the "U.S.