![]() Smith's division and occupied Fort Heiman across the river from Fort Henry. During the campaign Wallace's brigade was attached to Brig. Lloyd Tilghman, whom Wallace would replace as commander of Fort Henry in a few days. Little did Wallace know at that time the officer was Brig. In his report, Wallace noted an officer in the fort who was watching the Union ships as inquisitively as they were watching him. Grant sent two wooden gunboats ( timberclads) down the Tennessee River for one last reconnaissance of the fort with Wallace aboard. In February 1862, while preparing for an advance against Fort Henry, Brig. Forts Henry & Donelson File:Lew Wallace.jpg After brief service in western Virginia, he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on September 3 and given the command of a brigade. On April 25, 1861, he was appointed Colonel of the 11th Indiana Infantry. In 1856, he was elected to the State Senate after moving his residence to Crawfordsville.Īt the start of the American Civil War, Wallace was appointed state adjutant general and helped raise troops in Indiana. On May 6, 1852, Wallace married Susan Arnold Elston by whom he had one son, Henry Lane Wallace (born February 17, 1853). In 1851 he was elected prosecuting attorney of the First Congressional District. After hostilities he was mustered out of the volunteer service on June 15, 1847. 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. ![]() He raised a company of militia and was elected a second lieutenant in the 1st Indiana Infantry regiment. Wallace was studying law at the start of the Mexican-American War in 1846. Afterward he joined his father in Indianapolis. In 1836, at the age of nine, he joined his brother in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he briefly attended Wabash Preparatory School. Wallace's autobiography contains many descriptive stories of this boyhood in Covington, including the account of the death of his mother in 1834. When Wallace's father was elected as lieutenant governor of Indiana, he moved his family to Covington, Indiana. 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. Wallace was born in Brookville, Indiana, to David Wallace and Esther French Test Wallace.
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