Waist up view of Edward Otho Cresap Ord as a Major General. Ord is seated and wears a double-breasted frock coat with Major Generals shoulder boards. He wears an overcoat with piping on the cuff but this is open and thrown off the shoulders to reveal is frock coat. Image is clear and contrast is excellent but the paper has a lot of discoloration above and around Ord’s face. Mount is good and there is no back mark. Lightly written in pencil at the top is “Ord” while along the bottom edge is “My Genl. E. O. C. Ord.”

Edward Ord was born in Cumberland, Maryland on October 18, 1818. He attended West Point where he graduated 17th in the class of 1839 and was assigned to the 3^rd Artillery. He fought the Seminole Indians in Florida. During the Mexican War he served in California where he was promoted to Captain. He then fought Indians in the Northwest. He was at Fort Monroe, Virginia when John Brown made his raid on Harper’s Ferry and took part in the expedition to suppress it. The outbreak of the Civil War found Ord in California where he was commissioned a Brigadier General of Volunteers on September 14, 1861. He commanded a brigade in the defenses of Washington and was engaged in the battle of Dranesville. May 3, 1862 saw Ord appointed a Major General.

He went west and after the battle of Iuka he won a brevet to Colonel in the Regular Army for meritorious service. He was severely wounded while chasing the Confederates after the battle of Corinth and did not return to the field until June of 1863 when he took command of the 13^th Corps at Vicksburg. Ord eventually ended up with command of the 18^th Corps in the 1864 Campaign against Richmond. He was seriously wounded a second time in the assault of Fort Harrison and was out of action till January of 1865. He then took command of the Army of the James. He remained in the Army after the war and made Brigadier General in the Regulars on July 26, 1866 and retired as a Major General in the Regulars in 1881. He died of Yellow Fever in Havana, Cuba on July 22, 1883 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.