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Enlisted as a Private on 18 August 1862 at the age of 21
Enlisted in Company K, 17th Infantry Regiment Maine on 18 August 1862
Wounded on 16 June 1864
Transfered to Regiment RC on 15 July 1864
New York Times of 14 August 1861 lists him among prisoner's being held in Richmond, serving in his brother's (Capt. Samuel Wardwell] company. Filed for Civil War Pension as "invalid".
At one time the oldest Civil War veteran in Lewiston and the oldest man in Androscoggin.
On 16 December 1927, he was part of a contingent of Maine Civil War Veterans who went to the Capitol in Washington to return flags captured during the war to the states of Virginia, North Carolina and Texas.
No children
Enlisted as a Private on 18 August 1862 at the age of 21
Enlisted in Company K, 17th Infantry Regiment Maine on 18 August 1862
Wounded on 16 June 1864
Transfered to Regiment RC on 15 July 1864
New York Times of 14 August 1861 lists him among prisoner's being held in Richmond, serving in his brother's (Capt. Samuel Wardwell] company. Filed for Civil War Pension as "invalid".
At one time the oldest Civil War veteran in Lewiston and the oldest man in Androscoggin.
On 16 December 1927, he was part of a contingent of Maine Civil War Veterans who went to the Capitol in Washington to return flags captured during the war to the states of Virginia, North Carolina and Texas.
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