[1] His parents, (both Dominicans of Spanish descent), were Juan Ogando Montero and María Catalina Encarnación (May Talina), who had 14 children: 12 boys and 2 girls.

[3][4][1] With Haitian support for the Dominican cause withdrawn due to the political maneuvers of the Spanish before President Fabre Geffrard, the patriots under the command of Sánchez and Cabral had crossed the border through the San Juan Valley.

However, upon reaching El Cercado, Sánchez was ambushed by a group of locals led by General Santiago de Óleo; Upon hearing the shots, Ogando ordered the convoy of wounded to continue forward and immediately returned to the scene.

[4] Retired in Haiti, Ogando waited for the outbreak of the Dominican Restoration War to immediately join it, doing the entire southern campaign and reaching the rank of General.

[7][8] Báez was deposed in 1874, he supported the government of Ignacio María González and was part of his entourage when he visited Cibao in the middle of that year.

[7][8] While waiting for Congress to hear the complaint, liberals and Baecistas (reds), wishing to avoid a civil war, agreed to propose to González that they would withdraw the accusation in exchange for his resignation, which he made effective in February 1876.

[7][8] In 1902, Ogando, at the old age of 84, he led a group of Dominicans in civil war that gave rise to the presidency of Pierre Nord Alexis in Haiti.