The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-09-21
COL. E. H. WARDWELL
DIED AT POCOMOKE CITY
Native Garrett COuntian Was iii
But Short Time

Col. Ernest H. Wardwell died at his
home on Laurel street, in Pocomoke
City, Nd, last Friday afternoon after
a two weeks illness of heart disease.
He was 70 years old.
Colonel Wardwell was born at
Grantsville, Garrett county, and was
educated in the schools of Oakland,
his parents having moved to this
place from Grantsville while he was
still quite youthful. He was a stu
dent at the Adams School in Balti-
more in 1861 when the Sixth Massa.
chusetts Regiment of the Union Army
marched through the city on April
10Th, 1861, on its way to the general
mobilization center. At that time
Colonel Wardwell was only Is years
of age, and he witnessed the attack
on the regiment by the citizens of
Baltimore.
His sympathies were with the reg
iment, and during the melee he seiz-
ed the musket of a disabled Union.
soldier and Joined the ranks of the
regiment and remained with that or
ganization until it was mustered out
in Boston, when he re-enlisted in the
Twenty-Sixth Massachusetts, serving
as a private, corporal, second lieuten-
ant and first lieutenant, and was mus
tered out as captain when less than
20 years old in 1865.
During the Civil War he participant
ed in the attack on Fort Saint Philip,
New Orleans, Bayou Teche, Donald
aldsonville, Baton Rouge, Plains
Store, Babina, Port Hudson, Bachel-
or's Creek and Grafton.
He was wounded at Babina and at
South River. During the war he
served on the stats of Generals Gro
yer, Augur, Dudley, Paine and Am
ory.
After he was wounded and untitled
for service, he returned to Baltimore
to recover, and during the battle of
Gettysburg, when Baltimore was
threatened, General Schenck ordered
all convalescent officers to report to
him for duty, and Colonel Wardwell
was assigned to duty as a special aide
to Gen. E. B. Tyler in command of
the Northwestern defense of Balti-
more.
After the war he became an at
tache of the Postoffice Department
at Washington under Postmaster
Gen. CreswelI of Maryland. In 1873
he removed from Washington to Oak
land where he organized the Garrett
Guard, which afterward became fam
Gus for its Haymaker Rife Company
of the Second Maryland Battalion of
which Colonel Wardwell was the lieu
tenant colonel. In addition to service
in the regular army and National
Guard, Colonel Wardwe, held several
positions of political nature, among
which was private secretary to Mayor
Master, of Baltimore. He was also
engaged during the Lowndes admins
tration at Annapolis in a clerical po-
sition in the State Capital.
Approximately thirty years ago
Colonel Wardwell removed with his
family from Oakland to Baltimore,
where he resided until about fifteen
years ago when he moved toPocomoke
City where he was engaged in editor
ial writing
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Ella M. Wardwell; a daughter, Blaine
Wardwell and two sons, John H. and
Hillhare Wardwell, as a result of his
second marriage, all of Pocomoke
City; and by three daughters, Ernes-
tine Wardwell, Mrs. Parlett Shanklin
and Mrs. Bradie Evans, all of Wash
ington, D. c., and two sons, Clifton
and Willard Wardwell, of Baltimore,
children of the first marriage.