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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.
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).
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.
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.
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 ...
Union Col. Lewis "Lew" Wallace, in command of the 11th Indiana Zouaves, occupied Romney for a few hours on June 13. The next day, Col. Ambrose P. Hill 's Confederates occupied the town. Confederate Col. John C. Vaughn of the 3rd Tennessee was apparently stationed in Romney, from which, under orders of A.P. Hill of the 13th Virginia Infantry ...
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 .
Lew Wallace is a statue by Andrew O'Connor that has been produced in both marble and bronze versions.. The marble version, a gift from the State of Indiana, was unveiled in the National Statuary Hall Collection in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on January 11, 1910, [1] in a commission that O'Connor received through the intervention of architect Cass Gilbert, with whom O’Connor had ...