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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.
The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, formerly known as the Ben-Hur Museum, is located in Crawfordsville, Indiana.It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976, [2] and in 2008 was awarded a National Medal from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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 ...
The General Lew Wallace Study and Museum honors the character of Judah Ben-Hur with a limestone frieze of his imagined face installed over the entrance to the study. [1] Wallace's grave marker at the cemetery in Crawfordsville includes a line from the Balthasar character in Ben-Hur : "I would not give one hour of life as a soul for a thousand ...
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.
On September 2, 1862, General Lew Wallace, the commanding officer of United States soldiers in Cincinnati, issued an order that required the councilmen of the city to organize militia companies in each city ward. Three regiments were quickly raised, comprising thirty companies of infantry, one company of cavalry and one battery of artillery.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a 1925 American silent epic adventure-drama film directed by Fred Niblo and written by June Mathis based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by General Lew Wallace.