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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 .
More than one tribute to Wallace's most famous book and its fictional hero have been erected near Wallace's home in Crawfordsville, Indiana. 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]
Gen. Lew Wallace ordered a pontoon bridge across the Ohio River to Northern Kentucky to help defend against the siege of Cincinnati in September 1862. Black Brigade given the dignity of ...
General Lew Wallace Study and Museum: Crawfordsville: Montgomery: Central: Biographical: Home and study of Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The Lew Wallace Study Preservation Society manages the 1895 National Historic Landmark. Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site: Rome City: Noble: North: Biographical: Home of author ...
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.
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.
Lew Wallace was a Civil War general, governor of the New Mexico Territory, and minister to the Ottoman Empire, and he is best known for writing Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. He used this building as his study from 1895 until his death in 1905. Wallace designed it himself, and it is now a museum. [47] 41: Madam C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company