Person:Cyrus Wardwell (1)

Promoted to Full Corporal (1863)

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 was Wounded on 16 June 1864 Transferred on 15 July 1864 Transfered in 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

Living with brother Samuel in Oxford at 1860 census. Living in Oxford at 1870 with real estate valued at $600 and personal estate value of $100. In Oxford at 1880 (called Ceims), 1890 and 1900 and 1910 census. Living as a boarder in Mechanic Falls, widowed, at 1920 census. No children

Record of Congress: "The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the bill (H.R.9197) to increase the pension of Cyrus T. Wardwell, submit the following report: Claimant is now pensioned at a rate of $4 per month for gunshot wound of right thigh. He was a corporal in Company K, Seventeenth Maine Volunteers. He filed a claim for increase upon new disabilities August 11, 1886, which claim is still pending in the Pensions Office awaiting answer to call for material evidence. This committee therefore ask to be discharged from further consideration of the bill."

Granted a $30 Special Act Pension in 1911.

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.

Listed in 1915 Oxford Directory as retired and a town Road Commissioner.

Listed in 1932, 1935, 1936 & 1937 Lewiston Directory, living at 824 Main Street, retired.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 History of Otisfield, Cumberland, Maine from the original grant to the close of the year 1944, Oxford, Me, William Samuel Spurr, 1953.