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Lewis "Lew" Wallace was born on April 10, 1827, in Brookville, Indiana.He was the second of four sons born to Esther French Wallace (née Test) and David Wallace. [2] Lew's father, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, New York, [3] left the military in 1822 and moved to Brookville, where he established a law practice and entered Indiana politics.
To the north and closest to Pittsburg Landing was W.H.L. Wallace's division. [60] Lew Wallace's division was at Crump's Landing, five miles (8.0 km) downstream (north) of the Union campsites. [9] His mid-March mission had been to damage a railroad. While on this railroad raid, his men learned that a large Confederate force was nearby.
Union Gen. Lew Wallace was the scapegoat of Shiloh but the savior of Cincinnati during the Civil War. Due to the confusion, Wallace didn’t arrive at the battlefield for the first day of fighting ...
Lew Wallace is most famous for his military service and his novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880). He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War, participating in the Battle of Fort Donelson, Battle of Shiloh, and Battle of Monocacy as well as managing operations for the Union Army in Indiana in July 1863 when Confederate general John Hunt Morgan invaded the state during ...
Shiloh: The Battle that Changed the Civil War, Simon and Schuster, 1997, ISBN 0-684-83857-5. Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3. Wallace, Isabel, Life and Letters of General William Hervey Lamme Wallace, Lakeside Press, 1909.
March 6 to March 31: Operations along the Tennessee River and then joined the division of Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace; April 6 and April 7: Battle of Shiloh; April 29 to May 30: Siege of Corinth; August 16: Captured 40 men from the 31st Louisiana at Milliken's Bend, Louisiana; August 18: Captured the steamer Fairplay
When Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ first appeared in 1880, it was bound in a cadet blue-gray cloth with floral decorations on the front cover, spine, and back cover. It was copyrighted October 12, 1880, and published November 12 (as noted in a letter to Wallace from Harper dated November 13, 1880).
Jun. 8—At Lew Wallace Elementary School, the arts are not just extracurricular activities. As an elevated arts school, arts are integrated into lessons to help promote creativity and ...