ORD, EDWARD 0. C., b. Md., 1818; son of James Ord, an officer of the war of 1812; graduated at the U. S. military academy at West Point in 1839. In July, 1839, lie was appointed 2d lieut. of the 3d artillery. lie served in the Florida war with the Seminole Indians 1839-42, and was then ordered to the frontier, taking part in many expeditions against the Indians. He was employed on the coast survey 1845 -46. When the war broke out in 1861 he was on duty in California, whither he Lad twice before been Sent; the first time to establish order and a respect for the law, in the performance of which duty he was forced to use very stringent measures, executing several notoriously desperate men; and again in 185e, having been made (opt. Sept. 7, 1850. He was appointed brig.gen. of volunteers in Sept., 1861, and the following November was placed in command of a brigade of Pennsylvania reserves, under gen. McCall, and was raised to the rank of maj. of the 4th artillery in the regular army. He was in action at the battle of Dranesville, near the Potomac, Dee. 20, where he defeated the confederate cavalry under gen. Stuart.. For this service he was brevetted maj.gen. of volunteers in May, 1862, and a month later was transferred to the west, where he participated in the engagements that made memorable the months of August and September, events in which the army of the Mississippi figured. He was placed in command of Corinth under gen. Grant, and subsequently of the 2(1 division of the district of w. Tennessee. For gallantry at luka, Sept. 19-20, he was brevetted col. At
liatchie, Oct. 5, he was in command, and was dangerously wounded, for his services he was brevetted brig.gen. the siege of Vicksburg and capture of Jackson, he commanded the 13th army corps, and afterward the 8th corps in the middle department, July 9-21, 1864, and the 18th corps in operations before•Richmond, July 21 to Sept. 30, 1864. He was again severely wounded in the assault. and capture of fort Harrison, neat Richmond, Sept. 29, 1864, and brevetted maj.gen. On Jan. 9, 1865, he superseckal gen. Butler in command of the department of Virginia and North Carolina, and of the army of the JameS, which he commanded from Jan. to June, 1865, through the siege of Peters burg,..and subsequent movements against the army of northern Virginia, under gen. Lee, to the surrender at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865. His rank at the close of the war was lieut.col. of the 1st artillery, dating from Dec. 11, 1865, in the regular army, and maj.gen. of volunteers, which latter he continued to hold, and was at the head of various departments until Sept., 1866, when, having been promoted to brig.gen. in the regular army the July previous, he was mustered out of the volunteer service. He was commander of the 4th military district of Mississippi and Arkansas, from April to Dec., 1867, and has been In command of the departments of California, the Platte, and Texas. He retired from the service Dec. 8, 1880.