Indiana in the Mexican-American War - People from Indiana in the Mexican-American War, Lew Wallace, Joseph A. Wright, James Whitcomb (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: People from Indiana in the Mexican-American War, Lew Wallace, Joseph A. Wright, James Whitcomb, Alvin Peterson Hovey, Henry Smith Lane, Don Carlos Buell, Sile Doty, Lovell Rousseau, Joseph Lane, Nathan Kimball, Jefferson C. Davis, James Henry Lane, William A. Bowles, Mahlon Dickerson Manson, William Plummer Benton, James Wilson, James A. Cravens, Jeffersonville Quartermaster Depot, James Hughes, Tilghman Howard, 1st Indiana Volunteers, 5th Indiana Volunteers. Excerpt: Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10, 1827 - February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, governor, Union general in the American Civil War, politician and author best remembered for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Wallace was born in Brookville, Indiana, to David Wallace and Esther French Test Wallace. His father was a graduate of the United States Military Academy and served as lieutenant governor and Indiana Governor; his stepmother, Zerelda Gray Sanders Wallace, was a prominent suffragist and temperance advocate. When Wallace's father was elected as lieutenant governor of Indiana, he moved his family to Covington, Indiana. Wallace's autobiography contains many descriptive stories of this boyhood in Covington, including the account of the death of his mother in 1834. In 1836, at the age of nine, he joined his brother in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he briefly attended Wabash Preparatory School. Afterward he joined his father in Indianapolis. Wallace was studying law at the start of the Mexican-American War in 1846. He raised a company of militia and was elected a second lieutenant in the 1st Indiana Infantry regiment. He rose to the position of regimental adjutant and the rank of first lieutenant, serving in the army of Zachary Taylor, although he personally did not participate in combat. After hostilities he was mustered out of the vol...