![]() ![]() He was elected as a second lieutenant in Company H of the 1st Indiana Volunteer Infantry and served near the Rio Grande. Three years later, when the Mexican-American War began, nineteen-year-old Wallace raised a company of troops for volunteer service. At age sixteen years, he obtained employment as a clerk and struck out on his own. Two years later, his father married Zerelda Gray Sanders Wallace, who raised the orphaned boys.ĭuring his youth, Wallace attended common schools in Indiana but did not demonstrate much interest in academics. ![]() Wallace's mother died a few months after Wallace's seventh birthday. Lew Wallace's father was a graduate of the United States Military Academy, the sixth Governor of Indiana, and a United States Congressman. ![]() He was the second of four sons of David Wallace and Esther French Test Wallace. Lewis Wallace was born in Brookville, Indiana on April 10, 1827. Lew Wallace served as a general officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War, and he was the author of the highly-acclaimed novel, Ben Hur, A Tale of the Christ. ![]()
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