Editing Edward Ord (section)

==Postbellum==
[[File:Grave of Brigadier General Edward Ord - Arlington National Cemetery - 2012-05-19.jpg|thumb|Grave of Edward Ord in [[Arlington National Cemetery]]]]
During [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]], Ord was assigned by [[Lieutenant general (United States)|Lt. Gen.]] [[Ulysses S. Grant]] to command the Army of Occupation, headquartered at [[Richmond, Virginia|Richmond]]. Subsequently, he was assigned to the [[Department of the Ohio]] until he was mustered out of the volunteers in September 1866. On December 11, 1865, he received the commissions of [[Lieutenant colonel (United States)|lieutenant colonel]] and [[Brigadier general (United States)|brigadier general]] in the [[Regular Army (United States)|regular army]] for the Battle of Hatchie's Bridge and brevet [[Major general (United States)|major general]] of volunteers for the assault of Fort Harrison, all dating from March 13, 1865. Subsequently, he commanded the [[Department of Arkansas]] (1866–67), the [[Fourth Military District]] (1867–68), and the [[Department of California]] (1868–71).

Ord commanded the [[Department of the Platte]] from December 11, 1871, until April 11, 1875, when he was reassigned as the commander of the [[Department of Texas]]. He served in that role until his retirement on December 6, 1880. While he was stationed in Texas, he supervised the construction of [[Fort Sam Houston]].

In January 1872, Ord was a member of the buffalo hunting excursion with the [[Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia]] on the plains of southwest [[Nebraska]] with American celebrities of the day. They included [[Philip Sheridan]] (second in command of the United States Army), Lt. Col. [[George Armstrong Custer]], [[Buffalo Bill Cody]], [[Wild Bill Hickok]], and [[Texas Jack Omohundro]].

During 1872, Ord and a soldier detachment were assigned to protect the survey parties of the [[Wheeler Survey]] as they worked in the vicinity of northeastern Utah.<ref>Howell, Edwin E. (1845–1911). Diary of December 12, 1872. [http://www.library.rochester.edu/rbscp Univ. of Rochester Rare Books and Manuscript Collections].</ref>

In 1876, Ord was appointed military governor of the Fourth Military District which included Mississippi and Arkansas.<ref name=Donovan>{{cite book |last1=Donovan |first1=Timothy P. |title=Governors of Arkansas – Essays in Political Biography |date=1981 |publisher=The University of Arkansas Press |location=Fayetteville |isbn=0-938626-00-0 |page=44 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bQLvBQEFnZYC&pg=PA44 |access-date=2 September 2018}}</ref>

Ord retired from the army in 1881 with the rank of brevet major general, and at this time, General Sherman wrote of him, "He has had all the hard knocks of service, and never was on soft or fancy duty. He has always been called on when hard duty was expected, and never flinched."

Later in 1881, Ord was hired by his former commander, U. S. Grant, president of the [[Mexican Southern Railroad]] owned by [[Jay Gould]], as a [[civil engineering|civil engineer]] to build a railroad line from Texas to [[Mexico City]].

In 1882, Ord's daughter, Roberta, married a prominent Mexican general [[Jerónimo Treviño]].<ref>[http://juancrouset.blogspot.mx/2012/02/mexican-soldier-and-yankee-soldiers.html Juan Crouset: A Mexican Soldier and a Yankee Soldier's Daughter]</ref>

While working in Mexico, Ord contracted [[yellow fever]]. He became seriously sick while on his way from Vera Cruz to New York. He was taken ashore at [[Havana, Cuba]], where he died in the evening of July 22, 1883. On the occasion of his death, General Sherman said of Ord, "As his intimate associate since boyhood, the General here bears testimony of him that a more unselfish, manly, and patriotic person never lived". He was buried at [[Arlington National Cemetery]], in [[Arlington, Virginia]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://ancexplorer.army.mil/publicwmv/#/arlington-national/search/results/1/CgNvcmQSBmVkd2FyZBoEb3Robw--/ |title=Burial Detail: Ord, Edward Otho Cresap (Section 2, Grave 982) |work= ANC Explorer|publisher=Arlington National Cemetery |id=(Official website)}}</ref>

Ord's son, Edward O. C. Ord, Jr., was also an Army officer.  Ord, Jr. was a hereditary member of the [[Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States]], the [[Sons of the American Revolution]], and the [[Sons of the Revolution]].