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LEWIS [LEW] WALLACE (1827—1905)

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

He served as

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

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