Wallace had a talent for drawing and loved to read, but he was a discipline problem at school. Lew began his formal education at the age of six at a public school in Covington, but he much preferred the outdoors. In 1837, after David's election as governor of Indiana, the family moved to Indianapolis. In December 1836, David married nineteen-year-old Zerelda Gray Sanders Wallace, who later became a prominent suffragist and temperance advocate. In 1832 the family moved to Covington, Indiana, where Lew's mother died from tuberculosis on July 14, 1834. Lew Wallace's maternal grandfather was circuit court judge and Congressman John Test. David served in the Indiana General Assembly and later as the state's lieutenant governor, and governor, and as a member of Congress. Military Academy in West Point, New York, left the military in 1822 and moved to Brookville, where he established a law practice and entered Indiana politics. He was the second of four sons born to Esther French Wallace (née Test) and David Wallace. Lewis "Lew" Wallace was born on April 10, 1827, in Brookville, Indiana. The Kentucky Campaign and Defense of Cincinnati.Wallace retired to his home in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he continued to write until his death in 1905. minister to the Ottoman Empire (1881–1885). Wallace was appointed governor of the New Mexico Territory (1878–1881) and served as U.S. Army in November 1865 and briefly served as a major general in the Mexican army, before returning to the United States. He also served on the military commission for the trials of the Lincoln assassination conspirators, and presided over the trial of Henry Wirz, the Confederate commandant of the Andersonville prison camp. Wallace, who attained the rank of major general, participated in the Battle of Fort Donelson, the Battle of Shiloh, and the Battle of Monocacy. He was appointed Indiana's adjutant general and commanded the 11th Indiana Infantry Regiment. Wallace's military career included service in the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century." Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana.
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