MEXICAN AMERICAN/CIVIL WAR LIFE & LETTERS OF GENERAL W.H.L. WALLACE 1909 1ST ED

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MEXICAN AMERICAN/CIVIL WAR LIFE & LETTERS OF GENERAL W.H.L. WALLACE 1909 1ST ED:
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LIFE & LETTERS OF GENERAL W.H.L. WALLACE 1909 1ST EDITION HARDBACK
BY ISABEL WALLACE
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William Hervey Lamme Wallace(July 8, 1821 – April 10, 1862), more commonly known asW.H.L. Wallace, was a lawyer and aUniongeneral in theAmerican Civil War, considered byUlysses S. Grantto be one of the Union\'s greatest generals.
Wallace became licensed in law in 1846 and that same year he joined the 1st Illinois Infantry as a private. He rose to the ranksecond lieutenantand adjutant and participated in theBattle of Buena Vistaalong with a few other minor engagements. After this brief experience in theMexican-American Warhe became district attorney in 1853.

At the start of the Civil War, Wallace volunteered as a private with the11th Illinois Infantry, which was assembled inSpringfield. He was then elected the unit\'s colonel.[citation needed]He rose up the ranks and commanded a brigade of Brig. Gen.John A. McClernand\'s division of Grant\'sArmy of the Tennesseeat theBattle of Fort Donelsonin 1862. During the battle much of McClernand\'s division had been driven back with heavy losses and Wallace\'s coolness under fire was especially noted. Brig. Gen.Lew Wallacedescribed the colonel as looking like a \"farmer coming from a hard day\'s plowing\". After this first time meeting upon the Fort Donelson battlefield, the two quickly learned each possessed the same surname and had commanded their respective states\' 11th regiments, prompting Lew Wallace to muse the coincidence must have caused \"great profanity in the army post office\".

For his service at Fort Donelson Colonel Wallace was appointed abrigadier generalof volunteers. During the expedition toSavannah, TennesseeMaj. Gen.Charles Ferguson Smithinjured his leg and was forced to turn over command of hisdivisionto Wallace.At theBattle of Shiloh, Wallace was a new division commander, yet he managed to withstand six hours of assaults by theConfederates, directly next to the famous Hornet\'s Nest, or Sunken Road. When his division was finally surrounded, he ordered a withdrawal and many escaped, but he was mortally wounded and only later found barely alive on the battlefield by his troops. They carried him to his wife, who helped tend to him on the way back to General Grant\'s headquarters in theCherry MansioninSavannah, Tennessee. He died three days later in his wife\'s arms; his last words were \"We meet in heaven.\" From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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