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See also:LEWIS [LEW] See also:WALLACE (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
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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
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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
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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: 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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