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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.
William Hervey Lamme Wallace (July 8, 1821 – April 10, 1862), more commonly known as W. H. L. Wallace, was a lawyer and a Union general in the American Civil War, considered by Ulysses S. Grant to be one of the Union's greatest generals.
Henry Mosler, Preparations for Defense at Cincinnati, sketch, Harper’s Weekly, September 20, 1862. Cincinnati's mayor, George Hatch, ordered all businesses closed. Union Major General Lew Wallace declared martial law, seized sixteen steamboats and had them armed, [2] and organized the citizens of Cincinnati, Covington, and Newport, Kentucky for defense.
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.
Civil War Times, August 2007 (Volume XLVI, number 6) (Leepson, August 2007). Leepson, Marc. ... The Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War.
The Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War. Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press, 2010. ISBN 978-0-87195-287-5. Woodworth, Steven E. Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861–1865. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. ISBN 0-375-41218-2. National Park Service battle description
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 ...
The Presbyterian church was used as a hospital and stable during the Civil War. Sycamore Dale residence (1836), South Branch River Road (CR 8) Referred to in the General Lew Wallace raid of June 12, 1861, Sycamore Dale was built by David Gibson in 1836. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.