WALLACE, LEWIS (1827-1905). Au Ameri can soldier and novelist, known as Lew Wallace. He was born in Brookville, Ind. lie studied law in Indiana. served in the Mexican War, and then practiced law until the Civil War. He served as colonel of a regiment of Indiana volunteers in Virginia in 1861. and on September 3, 1801, was promoted to the rank of hrigadier-general of volunteers. He took a prominent part in the second day's fighting at Shiloh (q.v.), having failed to reach the battlefield on the first day, and in the subsequent operations about Corinth, and in /663 superintended the con struction of defenses at Cineinnati, a nil protected that city when it was threatened by a Confed erate force under General E. K. Muhl, sequently he commanded the Middle Department and the Eighth Army Corps. with headquarters at Baltimore, and on July 9, 1864, with a greatly inferior force, delayed the advance of General Jnbal A. Early (q.v.) at Monocacy, where, how ever. he suffered a defeat.
He was president of the court of inquiry which investigated the conduct of General 1). Buell (q.v.) in November, 1502, and of the court which tried Henry Wirz, commandant of the prison at Andersonville. Ga. (q.v.), and was a member of the court which tried those charged with com plicity in the assassination of l'resident Lincoln. On retiring from the army in 1805 he resumed the practice of law in Indiana, was Governor of New _Mexico ( 1878-S1) and United States Minister to Turkey ( 1881-85). His popularity as a lee turer was great throughout the country. Among his novels The Pair God (1873) and The Prince of India (1893) were highly estimated. Ilse liar (1880), a story of Palestine and Borne in the time of Christ, achieved an almost unprecedented success and was drai ma t ized (19001. Wallace was also the author of The Boyhood of clivisl (1889) and of a poem. 7'he Wooing of If alktiloon (1898).