Ord, Edward O. C

(1818-1883), commanded the national forces at Dranesville in 1861. He led the left wing of Grant’s army at Iuka and Hatchie in 1862. He led a corps at Vicksburg, Jackson, Richmond and Fort Harrison. In 1865 he commanded the Department of Virginia and the Army of the James at Petersburg and in the subsequent battles ending at Appomattox Court House. Orders-in-Council. Decrees i ued by the King of Great Britain and his Privy Councils of which the most famous were those prohibiting commercial intercourse by neutral countries with States with whom he was at war. A proclamation of June 8, 1793, had prohibited trade with France and directed the seizure of neutral ships engaged in such traffic. Similar orders were i ued in 1794. November 11, 1807, the famous Orders-in-Council prohibited direct trade from the United States to any European country under Napoleon’s power.