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WALLACE, LEWIS [LEW] (18271905) , American soldier and author, was born at Brookville, Indiana, on the loth of April, 1827, and received an academic education. He abandoned, temporarily the study of law in Indianapolis to recruit a coma pany of volunteers (of which he was made second lieutenant)] for the Mexican War, and served in 18461847 in the First Indiana Battery. He returned to the law, but at the beginning of the Civil War became colonel of the Eleventh Indiana Infantry, served in the West Virginia campaign, and on the 3rd of September 1861 was appointed brigadier-general. After the capture of Fort Donelson (February 16, 1862) he was promoted to major-general (March 21, 1862), was engaged at Shiloh (April 7, 1862), and afterwards commanded the Eighth Corps with headquarters at Baltimore . By delaying the Confederate I general j. A. Early at Monocacy (July 9, 1864) he saved Washing-ton from almost certain capture. General Wallace, served as president of the court of inquiry (November iSo2) which investigated the conduct of General D. C. Buell, and of the court which in 1865 tried and condemned Henry
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