Lewis Wallace was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, artist, inventor and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, he is best known for the historical adventure story Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Born in 1827 and dying in 1905, he had a public career of unusual breadth alongside his writing. Ben-Hur was a bestselling novel that has been called the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century. His military career included service in the Mexican-American War and the Civil War, in which he commanded the 11th Indiana Infantry Regiment and rose to the rank of major general.
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was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, artist, inventor, and author from Indiana
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Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827
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February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, artist, inventor, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is
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