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WALLACE, LEWIS [LEW] (1827—1905)

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WALLACE, See also:LEWIS [LEW] (1827—1905) , See also:American soldier and author, was See also:born at Brookville, See also:Indiana, on the loth of See also:April, 1827, and received an See also:academic See also:education. He abandoned, temporarily the study of See also:law in See also:Indianapolis to recruit a See also:coma pany of See also:volunteers (of which he was made second See also:lieutenant)] for the Mexican See also:War, and served in 1846–1847 in the First Indiana See also:Battery. He returned to the law, but at the beginning of the See also:Civil War became See also:colonel of the See also:Eleventh Indiana See also:Infantry, served in the See also:West See also:Virginia See also:campaign, and on the 3rd of See also:September 1861 was appointed brigadier-See also:general. After the See also:capture of Fort See also:Donelson (See also:February 16, 1862) he was promoted to See also:major-general (See also:March 21, 1862), was engaged at See also:Shiloh (April 7, 1862), and afterwards commanded the Eighth See also:Corps with headquarters at See also:Baltimore. By delaying the Confederate I general j. A. See also:Early at Monocacy (See also:July 9, 1864) he saved Washing-ton from almost certain capture. General Wallace, served as See also:president of the See also:court of inquiry (See also:November iSo2) which investigated the conduct of General D. C. See also:Buell, and of the court which in 1865 tried and condemned See also:Henry Wirz, See also:commander of the Confederate See also:prison at See also:Andersonville, Ga. He was also a member of the court which tried the alleged conspirators against President See also:Lincoln. He resigned from the See also:army in 1865 to return to the See also:bar.

He served as See also:

governor of New See also:Mexico Territory (1878–1881) and as See also:minister to See also:Turkey (1881–1885). Though exceedingly popular as a lecturer, his See also:literary reputation rests upon three See also:historical romances: The See also:Fair See also:God (1873), a See also:story of the See also:conquest of Mexico; See also:Ben Hur (1880), a See also:tale of the coming of See also:Christ, which was translated into several See also:languages and dramatized; and The See also:Prince of See also:India (1893), dealing with the Wandering See also:Jew and the See also:Byzantine See also:empire.

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