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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.
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.
The Buell Military Commission was an 1862–63 U.S. government investigation into the command decisions of U.S. Army general Don Buell in the first years of the American Civil War. The commission was headed by Lew Wallace. [1]
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.
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.
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.
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 ...