She also details his funeral and her and her mother’ s life in the postwar years. Grant praised Wallace in 1868 as “ the equal of the best, if not the very best, of the Volunteer Generals with me at the date of his death.” Isabel Wallace traces her father’ s life from his upbringing in Ottawa through his education, his service in the Mexican War, his law practice, his courtship of and marriage to her mother, and his service in the Eleventh Illinois until his mortal injury at Shiloh. His wife, who had arrived at Pittsburg Landing by steamer on the day of the battle, was at his side when he died three days later. Wallace, who held only temporary command of one of Grant’ s six divisions, fought bravely but was mortally wounded as he began to withdraw his men on the afternoon of the battle. Grant at Shiloh Church on Sunday, April 6, 1862. He then moved with his troops to Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee, where Confederates launched a surprise attack on the forces of Major General Ulysses S. Wallace’ s troops had saved the day, although the Eleventh Illinois had lost nearly two-thirds of its men. Wallace was appointed brigadier general for his performance at Fort Donelson, the first notable Union victory in the Civil War. Wallace was elected as the unit’ s colonel a successful lawyer, a friend of President Lincoln, a generation older than most privates, and an officer with Mexican War experience, he was entirely suited for such command. When the Civil War broke out, both Wallace and Dickey immediately volunteered for service with the Eleventh Illinois, which assembled in Springfield. Wallace eventually married Dickey’ s daughter, Martha Ann, in 1851. Lyle Dickey, a close friend of Lincoln, to join his practice in Ottawa instead.

On his way to study law with Abraham Lincoln in Springfield in 1844, Wallace was persuaded by local attorney T. Born in 1821 in Ohio, Wallace and his family moved to Illinois in 1834, where he was educated at Rock Springs Seminary in Mount Morris. Used Good (1 available) Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.Originally published in 1909, this biography by Isabel Wallace recounts the life of her adoptive father, the little-recognized William Hervy Lamme Wallace, the highest-ranking Union officer to fall at the battle of Shiloh.

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