Directory of Wallace, Lew Resources

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Lew Wallace (1827-1905) was by turns a lieutenant in the Mexican-American War, a member of the Indiana state legislature, a major-general in the Civil War, governor of the New Mexico territory, best-selling novelist, and ambassador to Turkey. His wife Susan was a successful author in her own right.

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• General Lew Wallace Study

  http://www.ben-hur.com/
  Museum housed in Wallace's study in Crawfordsville, Indiana: Hours, contact information, biography, image gallery, bibliography for Lew and Susan Elston Wallace, information on Ben-Hur.

• Lew Wallace: Soldier, Statesman & Scholar

  http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~rcadams/
  Illustrated biography, bibliographies with photos of several editions, Wallace's poetry, links. Companies using "Ben-Hur" in their name or that of their products, unusual Ben-Hur items. From a rare books librarian.

• National Statuary Hall Collection: Lewis Wallace

  https://www.aoc.gov/art/national-statuary-hall-collection/lewis-wallace
  Lew Wallace represents Indiana in Statuary Hall. Photo of the sculpture of Wallace in Civil War uniform. Short biography.

• Shotgun's Home of the American Civil War: Lewis Wallace (1827-1905)

  http://www.civilwarhome.com/wallacebio.htm
  Illustrated biography focuses on Wallace's activities during the Civil War.

• Spartacus Educational: Lewis Wallace

  http://spartacus-educational.com/USACWwallace.htm
  Short biography focuses on Wallace's Civil War career and on the military commission formed to judge the conspirators in the Lincoln assassination.

• The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: Lew Wallace

  http://www.bartleby.com/227/0410.html
  Review of Ben-Hur.

• Wallace MSS.

  http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/lilly/mss/html/wallace.html
  Brief biography of Lewis Wallace, description of manuscript collection at Indiana University.

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