Lewis Wallace Small 267×320 Medium 535×640 Large 856×1024 Download Tiff Original 2006×2400 | (3.1 MB) Description Lewis "Lew" Wallace (1827 - 1905) was a lawyer, governor, and Union general in the Civil War. He is most known for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.He was the eleventh governor of the New Mexico Territory. Keywords Civil War, famous authors, General Lew Wallace, General Lewis Lew Wallace, kauthor, USGovernor Galleries Famous People: W, New Mexico, US Governors Source: Charles Carleton Coffin Drum-Beat of the Nation (New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1915) Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman
