Edward Otho Cresap Ord papers, 1840-1887.

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Edward Otho Cresap Ord papers, 1840-1887.

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Contains professional correspondence with other U.S. military and government officials including U.S. Secretary of War Jefferson Davis, General Horace Porter, and General U.S. Grant. Correspondence covers the gold rush and frontier years, the American Civil War, Reconstruction, Indian Wars, "Negro's" in the military, the Nebraska Grasshopper disaster of the 1870s and the Mexician Railroad construction. Also contains accounts from different assignments including the U.S. Coast Survey in the 1850s. Also contains diagrams and letters pertaining to inventions of E.O.C. Ord, including a "flying machine", and a U.S. Patent award, No. 27,147 for an artillery improvement. Also includes a biographical sketch of E.O.C. Ord's life and career, his passport to Mexico, and personal correspondence with family members including father James Ord, brothers Dr. James L. Ord, Robert "Bob" Ord, and wife Mary "Molly" Ord. U.S. Patent award, No. 27,147. Washington, D.C., Feb. 4, 1860. Ribbon bound legal documents volume (6 p., 52 x 38 cm) consisting of an official printed United States Patent Office award form filled in with manuscript descriptions of the patent and applicant information, two drawings on linen tracing paper, and a manuscript description of the patent written and signed by Ord when he was a captain in the U.S. Artillery. The patent office form is signed by the Secretary of the Interior, Jacob Thompson, and the Acting Commisioner of Patents, S. T. Shugert, and has a green paper embossed seal of the Patent Office affixed. The manuscript text signed by Ord is further signed by two witnesses from the 3rd Artillery, Lieutenant J. W. Patton and Second Lieutenant Alex Piper. The patent is for "...a new and useful [Application of gunpowder to flat projectiles, giving them rotation]..."

2 boxes, 1 portfolio, 1 oversize folder (0.85 linear feet)

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