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Field name	Value
Collection Reference Number	GLC00208
From Archive Folder	Unassociated Civil War Documents 1862
Title	Military commission of Edward O. C. Ord to Brigadier General of Volunteers
Date	28 January 1862
Author	Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865)
Document Type	Military document
Content Description	Lincoln's appointment of Ord, countersigned by Secretary of War Stanton. Ord was ordered east from California to assume his new command, and soon after won one of the Union's earliest victories at Dranesville, Virginia. Lincoln signed in full: "Abraham Lincoln." Endorsed by Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas.
Subjects	President Military History Union Forces Union General Civil War
People	Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865) Stanton, E. M. (Edwin McMasters) (1814-1869) Ord, Edward Otho Cresap (1818-1883)
Place written	Washington, D.C.
Theme	The American Civil War; The Presidency
Sub-collection	Papers and Images of the American Civil War
Copyright	The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module	Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945
Transcript	Show/hide To all who shall see these presents greeting: Know Ye, That reposing special trust and confidence in the patriotism, valor, fidelity, and abilities of E O C Ord I have nominated, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, do appoint him Brigadier General of Volunteers in the service of the United States: to rank as such from the Sixteenth day of September eighteen hundred and Sixty one. He is therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of Brigadier General by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging. And I do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under his command, to be obedient to his orders as Brigadier General And he is to observe and follow such orders, and directions, from time to time, as he shall receive from me, or the future President of the United States of America, or the General, or other superior Officers set over him, according to the rules and discipline of War. This Commission to continue in force during the pleasure of the President of the United States, for the time being. GIVEN under my hand, at the City of Washington, this Twenty-eight day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Sixty two and in the Eighty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States. By the President, Abraham Lincoln Edwin M Stanton Secretary of War. [docket] Recorded Vol. 1[7]. page 39. Adjt Genl's Office January 28th. 1862. L. Thomas Adjt Genl.

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