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WALLACE, LEWIS [LEW] (18271905)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 277 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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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
  Wirz,
commander
  of the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Ga. He was also a member of the court which tried the alleged conspirators against President Lincoln. He resigned from the army in 1865 to return to the bar. He served as
governor
  of New
Mexico
  Territory (18781881) and as minister to Turkey (18811885). Though exceedingly popular as a lecturer, his literary reputation rests upon three historical romances: The
Fair
  God (1873), a story of the conquest of
Mexico
 ; Ben Hur (1880), a tale of the coming of Christ, which was translated into several languages and dramatized; and The Prince of India (1893), dealing with the Wandering Jew and the Byzantine empire.


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