Ricketts from VI Corps was defeated by Confederate General, Jubal A. He had some 5,800 men under his command when the division of James B. Wallace’s most notable service came in July 1864, at the Battle of Monocacy, part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864. After brief service in western Virginia, he was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on 03 September 1861, and given the command of a brigade. On 25 April 1861, he was appointed Colonel of the 11th Indiana Infantry. At the start of the American Civil War, Wallace was appointed state adjutant general and helped raise troops in Indiana. In 1856, he was elected to the State Senate after moving his residence to Crawfordsville. On, Wallace married Susan Arnold Elston by whom he had one son, Henry Lane Wallace, born 17 February 1853. He raised a company of militia, and was elected a second lieutenant in the 1st Indiana Infantry regiment. Wallace was studying law at the start of the Mexican-American War in 1846. Afterward he joined his father in Indianapolis. In 1836, at the age of nine, he joined his brother in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he briefly attended Wabash Preparatory School. Lewis Wallace was born on 10 April 1827 in Brookville, Indiana, to David Wallace and Esther French Test Wallace.
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