Resources

General:

• Lew Wallace Study and Museum
• IU Cinema screening of Ben Hur
• Biography overview
• Overview by the Indiana Historical Society

Soldier:

• The Civil War (Battle of Shiloh and Monocacy mentioned)
• Battle of Shiloh (Wallace only mentioned once)
• Battle of Shiloh
• Battle of Monocacy
• Battle of Monocacy (more about Lew Wallace than above link)
• Fort Donelson
• Lew Wallace’s Civil War career
• 11th Indiana Volunteer Infantry

Governor:

• Governor of New Mexico

Ambassador:

• U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire

Lawyer:

• Lincoln Conspirators
• Pres. of the court for the “Andersonville Trial”
• James A Ramage Civil War Museum
• Lilly Library
• Statuary Hall

Places Lew Wallace lived:

• Brookville, IN
• Covington, IN
• Crawfordsville, IN

Books by Lew Wallace:

• The Fair God
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
• Wallace’s relationship with Robert Ingersoll

Books about Lew Wallace:

• The Sword and the Pen
• Shadow of Shiloh
• Scapegoat of Shiloh
• My Greatest Quarrel With Fortune
• Shiloh: Conquer or Perish
• Conner Prairie
• Library of Congress

Historian:

• Howard Miller