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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.
3rd Division was commanded by Major General Lew Wallace. [37] Many of the men in this division were veteran fighters. [41] 4th Division was commanded by Brigadier General Stephen A. Hurlbut. [37] This division contained a mixture of veterans and new soldiers. [38] 5th Division was commanded by Brigadier General William Tecumseh Sherman. [42]
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.
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 ...
General Staff & Headquarters. ... MG Lew Wallace. 1st Brigade K-18, W-114, M-0 = 132 ... Shiloh and the Western Campaign of 1862. Edited by Gary Joiner and Timothy Smith.
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
Shortly before the Battle of Shiloh in 1862, men under Union General Lew Wallace were stationed at Adamsville, Stoney Lonesome, and Crump's Landing in southwest Tennessee. On April 1, Lt. Charles H. Murray of the 5th Ohio Cavalry reported to Wallace that a skirmish near Adamsville ended in defeat for their Union detachment. Murray claimed that ...