Edward Otho C. Ord was a major general in the Union army during the Civil War and commanded the Department of Arkansas and the Fourth Military District during Reconstruction. Ord was born in ...
Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "That the purity and sanctity of the ballot box shall be preserved": Civil War politics and the troops -- "You must have learned ... of my ...
(CNN) — Ely S. Parker, a Tonawanda Seneca from western New York, never took no for an answer. At the start of the Civil War, Parker’s offer to enlist was rejected outright by another New Yorker, ...