Maj. Gen. Lewis Wallace

Born: April 10, 1827

Brookville, Indiana

Died: February 15, 1905

Crawfordsville, Indiana

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1st Lieutenant: 1846

2nd Lieutenant: 1847

Colonel: April 25, 1861

Brig. Gen.: September 3, 1861

Maj. Gen.: March 21, 1862

Resigned: November 30, 1865

1846 - 1847: Mexican-American War - never saw combat

2nd Lieutenant - 1st Indiana Infantry Regiment

1st Lieutenant and Regimental Adjutant under Zachary Taylor

April 25, 1861: Appointed Colonel of 11th Indiana Infantry

September 3, 1861: Promoted to Brigadier General

February 14-17, 1862: Commander, 3rd Division, District of Cairo, Department of Missouri

February 17 - June 1862: Commander, 3rd Division, Army of Tennessee

March 22, 1864 - February 1, 1865: Commander, 8th Corps, Middle Department

Valley Campaign of 1864

July 9, 1864: Battle of Monocacy

Part of the Military Commission Trail of President Lincoln's Assassination

Part of the Court Martial of Henry Wirz, Commandant of Andersonville Prison

November 30, 1865: Resigned from the Army

1878 - 1881: Governor of New Mexico Territory

1880: Completed and Published the novel making him famous "Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ" later made into four movies

1881 - 1885: U. S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire

Boatner, Mark M. III. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: David McKay, 1959. p 887

Lew Wallace. 2/22/2010. web.

Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue Lives of the Union Commander. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1964. pp 535-536