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- ↑ "Jordan, Robert". The National Medal of Honor Museum. Retrieved 2022-02-27.
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- ↑ United States. Congress., Senate. Committee on Veterans' Affairs (1979). Medal of Honor Recipients, 1863-1978: "In the Name of the Congress of the United States". U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 134.