Edward Ord

Edward Otho Cresap Ord (født 18. oktober 1818 i Cumberland i Maryland, død 22. juli 1883 i Havanna) var en amerikansk ingeniør og offiser i United States Army som var i kamp i seminole-krigen, indianerkrigene og den amerikanske borgerkrigen. Han var øverstkommanderende for en armé i de siste dagene av den amerikanske borgerkrigen og han var sentral i å tvinge frem overgivelsen til general Robert E. Lee i Confederate States Army. Han designet også Fort Sam Houston. Han døde i Havanna på Cuba av gulfeber.

Referanser

Kilder 
 Cody, William Frederick, An autobiography of Buffalo Bill (COLONEL W.F. CODY), Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920.
 Cresap, Joseph Ord, and Cresap, Bernarr, The History of the Cresaps, The Cresap Society, McComb, Mississippi, 1937.
 Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
 Flood, Charles Bracelen, Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005, ISBN 0-374-16600-5, page 285.
 Marschner, Janice, California 1850: A Snapshot in Time, Coleman Ranch Press, 2000 ISBN 0-9677069-3-9
 Ord, Edward Otho Cresap IV, American Civil War Society, Inc., Company Dispatch, August/September, 2005, Official newsletter of the American Civil War Society, page 5.
 Arlington National Cemetery website, Biography of Edward Otho Cresap Ord
 Fort Ord Alumni Association
 The United States Marines at Harpers Ferry, 1859 , U.S. Marine Corps Historical Reference Series, number 10, Historical Branch, G-3 Division, Headquarters, U. S. Marine Corps, Washington, D. C., revised 1962.
 History of the Department of the Platte
 Handbook of Texas Online
 Souvenirs of the surrender at Appomattox

Eksterne lenker 
 
 Article from Spartacus Schoolnet
 Guide to the Edward Otho Cresap Ord Papers at The Bancroft Library
 Edward Ord photograph page
 Edward Ord's map of the Gold and Quicksilver district of California

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