Wallace, Lew. : An Autobiography. 2 vols. : Harper & Brothers, 1906.

Volume I CONTENTS OF VOL. I Belief in Christianity — Ancestry — John Paul Jones, uncle of grand- mother — Andrew Wallace, grandfather — Letters from Almira — Professor of mathematics at West Point — David Wallace — Morse telegraph and defeat for Congress — Member of Congress — Lieutenant-Governor — Governor — Judge Court of Common Pleas — Died September, 1859 . Page 1 II Birthplace — Appearance — Removal to Covington — Death of brother John — Covington — Nebeker's ferry — Servant-girl's story of hanging — Fear of ghosts — The Irish school-master — Learns to draw pictures of battles — Little — Black Hawk War — Review of militia by Lieutenant - Governor — Playing Scottish chiefs — Bruce's heart Page 8 III A woman teacher — Studies geography — Truancy — Autumn and winter — Advent of stove — The circus— Servant-girl's superstition — Illness of mother — Death and burial — Mrs. John Hawkins Page 25 IV Goes to college — ''Nuts" — Mother's apparition to William — Empty house — David Wallace — Runs off to Crawfordsville — Wabash College — First appearance as student — The seminary — Reverend H---t— The Kerrs — The farm — The new mother . . Page 35 V Father elected governor — Removal to — The capital — Sketching in church — Jacob Cox — Learns to paint — First picture — State-house library — Books — Professor Hoshour — Lessons in English — Lorenzo Altisonant — The turning-point . . . Page 47 VI The literary society — Goldsmith's essay — Historical poem — Smith and Powhatan — The Man-at-Arms : A Tale of the Tenth Century Page 60 VII Youth — The trip to Tippecanoe battle-ground — The red petticoat — Attempt to go to — Capture by Dr. S--rs a constable — School bills — Life at home — Reading Macaulay — English reviews — Leave home Page 73 VIII Enter office of Robert S. Duncan — Buy a gun — Preparation for authorship — Study of grammar — Prescott's Conquest of Mexico — Begin The Fair God — Dancing-lessons Page 85 IX The military companies — "Marion Rifles" — Sham battle — Henry Clay — Reporter for legislature, 1844-45 — Studies law with his father Page 93 X First law practice — War with Mexico — Interest in war news — Examined for attorney's license — First conflicts with the Mexicans — Captain Charles May — Governor Whitcomb— Judge Isaac Blackford Page 100

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XI Opens recruiting-office in Indianapolis for volunteers for war with Mexico — The company leaves for New Albany via Edinburg in wagons — Three regiments encamped at Camp Clark — Colonel Drake — Henry S. Lane — Landing in New Orleans — General Jackson — Voyage to Brazos — The turtle — Ship . Page 114 XII Brazos — Death of Reck — The camp at the mouth of the — Sickness — -Suffering — Burials — Major Lane appeals to General Taylor for relief Page 121 XIII The march to Monterey — Attempt to go with the army — Paris C. Dunning — An instructor in tactics — The episode with Stipp Page 129 XIV The march to Walnut Springs — The church robbery at Cervalvo — The inquiry — The doctor's confession on the return . Page 136 XV Order to return to former camp — General Taylor's act — Lieutenant- Colonel Nave resigns — Major Lane elected to his place — The killing of Captain Thornton — Carvajal — The attack on Old Reynosa — The town spared — Gratitude of the women — The serenade Page 143 XVI The First Indiana at Walnut Springs — General Taylor — The camp at Walnut Springs — A visit to Monterey — An adventure in the chaparral — A test of courage — The first panic . . . Page 151 XVII The — February, 1847 — Permission to go to the front — Saltillo — La Rinconada — Biscuits and onions — The lieutenant — The adobe house — The three days' siege Page 159 XVIII Saltillo — February 25th — General Wool — Major Cravens — The field of Buena Vista after the battle — The Indiana regiments — The disposition of troops — Description of the battle — Mexican forces and generals (names) — The first day's fight — Colonel Gell — Colonels Hadden and Davis — Marshall — The fight in the ravine — Violation of flag of truce — Bragg — ''A little more grape, Bragg" — The day is saved Page 163 XIX General Taylor's report of the battle of Buena Vista — Report of court of inquiry exonerating Indiana regiments charged with cowardice — Colonel Bowles — A physician and botanist — Brigadier-General Lane — The battle Page 177 XX Departure from Walnut Springs, May 24, 1847 — Mustered out — Reception at New Orleans — Sergeant S. Prentiss — Robbed of savings — Return to Indianapolis — Resume law — The Fair God — Apply for license again from the Supreme Court . . Page 193 XXI June, 1848 — The Whig national convention — Nomination and election of Taylor — Edit a campaign paper opposing Taylor — Indiana refuses to vote for Taylor — A deficit of six hundred dollars — Left in the lurch — Become a Democrat of the straitest sect Page 201

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XXII Major Isaac C. Elston — His home — Susan Elston — College commencement, July, 1848 — Courtship — Receive license from Supreme Court Page 206 XXIII Return to Covington — Senator Hannegan — A wager — D. W. Voorhees — The violin — Judge Ristine — The political meeting at Chambersburg — Mr. M y — Justice Glasscock — To Danville, Illinois, with Voorhees — Abraham Lincoln Page 214 XXIV Made prosecuting attorney — James Wilson — Rival orators — David Brier and Dan Mace — The violin and the interrupted meeting — Removal to Crawfordsville, 1853 — The Fair God — Scribners' "agent" Page 224 XXV The Republican and other parties in Indiana — Party leaders Lane, Colfax, Allen, Defrees — Contest over slavery — Compromise measures — Stephen A. Douglas and "Squatter Sovereignty" — Thomas A. Hendricks — Joseph E. McDonald — Freedom or slavery — Three specifications Page 231 XXVI The prospect of civil war — Preparations — Study of tactics — Organization of Montgomery Guards — — Disapproved by "solid citizens" — Record of company — All commissioned officers Page 242 XXVII The state Democratic convention — Stephen A. Douglas — Pledges Indiana to support Buchanan and the South — I protest — Elected State Senator — Bill for restraining divorce — Bill for choosing United States Senators by General Assembly — The Douglas and Lincoln debate — First doubts as to Democracy . . . Page 248 XXVIII The political situation — Kansas — Democratic secret conference in Indianapolis — Sympathy with the South — I leave the meeting — The reconciliation with Morton — Offer services if needed — Sumter fired on — Telegram from Morton — April 13, 1861 — In court at Frankfort — Ride to Colfax on horseback — Thence to Indianapolis by train Page 257 XIX Interview with Morton at state-house — Appointed adjutant-general — President's call for seventy-five thousand men — State cooperates — Raises quota — Arrival in Indianapolis — — Eleventh Regiment — Zouaves — Barracks .... Page 263 XXX Uniform of the Eleventh Regiment Gray Zouaves — Mrs. Cady — ''Remember Buena Vista" — Sent to Evansville — Drill — The passing steamer — Winfield Scott — Ordered to Cumberland, Maryland Page 270 XXXI The route to Cumberland — Reception in Indianapolis and — The arrival in Grafton — General Tom Morris — The situation at Cumberland — Colonel McGinnis — The arrival in Cumberland — The encampment Page 278 XXXII From New Creek to Romney — Capture of a rebel major — Surprise prevented — The broken suspender-buckle — The enemy retreats — The welcome of the negroes — The incident of the farm-house — Rebel supplies captured Page 285

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XXXIII In camp at Cumberland — Frank Leslie's Illustrated Weekly — Congratulations from General Scott — Help refused — General Patterson — General McClellan — Corporal David Hay — The Fight of the Scouts — Colonel Biddle and the Pennsylvania Militia . Page 291 XXXIV Between Romney and Cumberland — The thirteen scouts — Silverheels — Farley and Hay — Spoils of battle — losses — At the culvert — Hand-to-hand fight — Hallowell — The death of Hollenback — Search for the dead — Congratulations from Patterson, McClellan, and Colfax Page 297 XXXV Ordered to Martinsburg — Joe Johnston and Beauregard — Arrival of baggage-train — Meeting with Patterson — Mexican War reminiscences — Fitz-John Porter — Colonel Stone — The rivalry of the Massachusetts regiment — A competitive drill . . . Page 308 XXXVI General Scott in command — Johnston at Harper's Ferry — Beauregard at Bull Run — Diagram — General Patterson's operations — The movement on Manassas — The Eleventh Regiment's willingness to remain beyond term of enlistment— Its return to Indianapolis Page 315 XXXVII The Eleventh Indiana — Its character — Tribute to General McGinnis Page 324 XXXVIII Eleventh Regiment re-enlists for three years — Invited to join McClellan's command — Goes to St. Louis with Fremont — Headquarters — Inactivity — Cold reception — Transferred to Smith's — Paducah Page 326 XXXIX Removal of regiment to Paducah — Map — Plans for opening the Mississippi River — Operations in central — Note : Grant and the Philadelphians at City Point — Forts Henry and Donelson Page 333 XL Arrival in Paducah — General Charles F. Smith — His headquarters — Conversations — Promotion to rank of brigadier-general September 3, 1861 Page 338 XLI Taking leave of the regiment — The staff — Tearing down the rebel flag — General Smith's attitude — Grant's visit at Paducah — Damaging newspaper stories Page 346 XLII The advance to Viola — Burning of the town — Conestoga and Lieutenant-Commander Phelps — The fugitive slave — The reconnoissance at Panther Island — Fort Henry — Colonel Page 354 XLIII The brigade organized — The advance upon Fort Henry — Fort Heiman — The Conestoga — John, the horse — The Chicago Battery — Pete Wood's Minnesingers — The occupation of Fort Henry — The mail-bag Page 365 XLIV Lieutenant-Commander Phelps and the Conestoga — Grant's council of war — McClernand — The attack on Donelson decided — Left behind — Major Ross makes a suggestion — In readiness to join Grant —The night-watch Page 373

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XLV Encamped at Dover — Ordered to Donelson — Mrs. Crisp's house — Grant's headquarters — Report to Grant — Assigned to centre position in the line of battle — Separated from the Eleventh Regiment — Lunch with Grant — Thayer Page 382 XLVI Take position — Cold weather — Heiman's tent — The captain's basket — Foote's defeat — The disabled gun-boats .... Page 390 XLVII John, the horse — McClernand falls back in disorder — A precarious position — Major Brayman — A panic — Rawlins — The rout turned —Colonel W. H. L. Wallace— Wood's battery . . . Page 397 XLVIII Before Donelson — General McClernand — The road recovered — The Eleventh Regiment reappears — Troops on the hill -side — Cruft and Ross , Page 410 XLIX The height won — The dead on the field — Johnson, the servant — Stores stolen — The sleep on the field — Major Ross — The flag of truce — The entrance to — General Buckner and staff — Captain Walker — The formal surrender — Union advantages Page 420 The return to Fort Henry — A new command of twelve regiments — Captain Hillyer — The report — Coldness at Grant's headquarters — The Third Division — The sword from Crawfordsville . Page 434 LI New opportunities for Grant — General Albert S. Johnston — Grant made a major-general but removed by Halleck — The advance — Smith in command — Arrival at Savannah, Tennessee — Smith's accident and death — Movement to Crump's Landing . Page 440 LII The topography of the Snake Creek region — Bell and Carpenter — A choice of roads — The bridges — Johnston's advance — The messenger to Grant — Grant in Savannah, Tennessee . . Page 448 LIII The ride to Stoney Lonesome — Whitelaw Reid — "Agate" — The first order from Grant — The second — The third — The Shunpike — Wallace's Bridge — The countermarch — A night in the rain — En route for Pittsburg Landing — Brown and Thayer . . Page 459 LIV The Army of the Tennessee — Map — No general-in-chief — Grant still at Savannah — No knowledge of Johnston's advance — No intrenchments — No line of battle — Grait in limbo — General Sherman's statement — -Colonel E. C. Dawes — Grant — Jacob Ammen McClernand Page 476 LV General — Lee — Departments of Virginia and Tennessee — General Johnston's plan of attack — Confederate testimony as to the surprise of Grant — Colonel Jordan — William P. Johnston — Whitelaw Reid — The events of Sunday morning Page 492

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Volume II

LVI The fighting done by the Army of the Tennessee — Rain and darkness — The surprise by Johnston — Desertions — Diagrams 1 and 2 — Colonel Stuart — Prentiss — Terrible loss of life — Gaps in the line of battle — Sherman — Killing of officers — The arrival of Grant — The Tigress — Sherman — The death of Johnston . . Page 503 LVII John, the horse — Brown's battery — Thurber — General Wallace in battle — An artillery duel — General Grant in the field — No orders — The struggle at Tilghman's Creek — Whittlesey — Brown out of ammunition — Colonel Stuart — The drummer -boys — Woods and the Seventy- sixth — The dead in the field — The deserted camp Page 541 LVIII No pursuit — Arrival of General Halleck — The meeting — At Shiloh Run — The book on tactics — Beauregard — General Grant after Shiloh — Halleck commander-in-chief — The visit of Halleck's orderlies — The criticism Page 570 LIX The evacuation of Corinth — The removal of all stores — The camp at Raleigh — The destruction of the Memphis & Ohio Railroad — The appearance of contrabands — A motley following — Colonel Slack — Richardson and Knox .edit the Memphis Avalanche — The stay in Memphis — A pleasant sequel Page 581 LX Relieved from command — Two months at home — Ordered to Kentucky by Morton — Colonel of the Sixty -sixth Indiana — Henry W. Wadsworth — Buell at Nashville — The advance of Kirby Smith — Garrett Davis Page 589 LXI General Nelson's defeat — The defence of Cincinnati — Thomas Saunders — Headquarters at the Burnet House — Mayor Hatch — Martial law proclaimed (September 2, 1862) — Fortifications be- hind Covington — The "Squirrel Hunters" — Seventy-two thousand men for defence — Buchanan Read Page 603 LXII General Wright returns to Cincinnati — Orders countermanded and reissued — Captain Worthington — General Heth's advance — Spies on both sides — Heth falls back — General Wallace thanked by Chamber of Commerce and Ohio legislature — What followed . Page 618 LXIII Ordered to Columbus — — State of camp and men — Paid off — Ordered to Minnesota to fight Indians — The stay in Columbus — Murdock's readings for the Sanitary Commission . Page 629 LXIV Relieved of command — Appointed on the Buell Commission to preside — Donn Piatt — Benn Pitman — Buell — Proceedings of the commission — Report Page 641 LXV Again relieved — Telegrams from Halleck in Cincinnati — Morgan's raid — Called to Morton's assistance — Sherman's letter to General Wallace— Sherman's conversation with Grant — Telegram to Secretary Stanton, declining to make speeches in the campaign, September 21, 1863 Page 654

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LXVI Given a command — Turning-point in military career — Interview with Lincoln — Stanton — Townsend — The Middle Department — Reverdy Johnson — Henry Winter Davis — Garrett — — Military rule Page 668 LXVII The election in Maryland — Formation of staff — Visit to the governor — Troops for the polls — Slavery abolished in Maryland by constitutional amendment — Letter from Henry Winter Davis . Page 678 LXVIII Martial law in Baltimore — Women smugglers — An arrest — The punishment and its effects — Seizure of the Maryland Club-house, as a refuge for negro women — The slave girl — The fine . . Page 686 LXIX Social life in Baltimore — Madame Bonaparte — The Bonaparte room — The bust of Napoleon Page 695 LXX The invasion of Maryland — John W. Garrett — The situation — Hunter's movements — Washington exposed — The Shenandoah Valley — General Grant — Halleck — General Wallace leaves Baltimore for the front — Disposition of his command . . Page 698 LXXI The departure for Frederick — Available troops — Halleck — Colonel Clendenin — The first gun of Monocacy — Preparations for battle — Deserters from Sigel — Washington menaced .... Page 712 LXXII The troops at Frederick — Colonel Clendenin — Colonel Gilpin — The call for reinforcements — The arrival of Colonel Henry and the Tenth Vermont— Alexander's battery — Spectators of the battle — - No relief from Halleck — General Tyler Page 729 LXXIII The doctor's horse — Available troops — Their disposition — The two bridges — General Ricketts — The twenty-four-pounder howitzer — The fight in the cornfield — Colonel Clendenin . . . Page 748 LXXIV The deserting engineer — The disabled howitzer — Burning of the wooden bridge — The telegram to Grant — The cowardly brigade — The skirmishers on the iron bridge — Lieutenant Davis — The beginning of the retreat Page 773 Part II I The retreat towards Baltimore — Clendenin’s capture of the Night Hawk Rangers’ flag Burningg of the block-house and supplies — The night with Ricketts — Superseded by Ord — Return to Baltimore? — Grant’s tribute in the Memoirs — Visit to Grant at City Point, September 12, 1864 Page 799 II Departure for Brazos Santiago — Letters from Vicksburg and New Orleans — Letters upon arrival — Private letters to General Grant — Conference with Ford and Slaughter — The situation in Matamoras Pago 812

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III Despatch to General Grant concerning Brazos — Letter to Ford and Slaughter — Propositions submitted to Kirby Smith — Letter from and reply to General Walker — Movements of Smith — Proclamation — Overtures to Maximilian — ^Return to Baltimore — Letter from Carvajal Page 823 IV The Lincoln commission — Members — Charge — Summing up by John A. Bingham, special judge-advocate — Execution July 7th — Charges of Father Walter — Sketches of the assassins for picture — Mrs. Surratt Page 847 V The Wirz commission — Cruelty’’ shown by the evidence — Wirz condemned and hanged — ^Tedium of trial — ^Letters from Washington — 1866 — Book on tactics rejected — Romero — Presentation of battle-flags to Governor Morton, July 4, 1866 . . . Page 852 VI General Sturm (from letter to Diaz) — ^Resignation from the army, November 4, 1865 — Mexican loan — History of personal claims against Mexico — Offer of commission by Mexico — Private letters from Matamoras, Roma, etc Page 862 VII Private letters from Monterey, Chihuahua, etc. — Evacuation of the French — Execution of Maxiuiiliaii, July 17, 1807 . . Page 877 VIII The completion of The Fair God — Crocker’s letter to Messrs. Osgood & Company — Castelar, Dufferin, Dilke, Donn Piatt — Letter to Mrs. Lane — The romance relating to the Jews — Congressional Library Page 887 IX Letter to the veterans of the Mexican War — ^^Commodus^' — Letter from Lawrence Barrett — The Florida conmission — Interview in the Indianapolis Journal — Letter to the illegal ^^com- mission” Page 895 X The mission to Bolivia — ^Martial law in New Mexico — Disturbance quieted — Letter from Mrs. Wallace to Henry L. Wallace — Letters from General Wallace to his wife — The article in the Youths’Companion^ ^‘How I Came to Write Ben-Hur”, . . Page 911 XI The manuscript of Ben-Hur — ^Letter from Garfield — The sales — Translations — Forgeries — Mahan — Library of St. Sophia — Page 938 XII Letters relating to Ben-Hur: Paul H. Hayne — Dufferin — W. W. Story — F, Marion Crawford — General C, P. Stone — Priest’s letter Page 9J7 XIII Friendly relations with the sultan — Release of Greek prisoners — Cleveland’s election and General Wallace’s resignation — Last interview with the sultan — ^Acceptance of a decoration — The part- ing gift to the sultan — The Prince of India .... Page 957

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XIV The speech at Wingate — Address to the cadets of the Naval Academy — A second offer from the sultan declined — Offer of mission to Brazil declined — Life of Harrison — Dramatization of Ben-Bur — Conclusion . . , Page 990

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