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The Public Career of General Lew Wallace, 1845-1905 The public career of General Lew Wallace Item Type text; Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic) Authors Theisen, Lee Scott Publisher The University of Arizona. Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author. Download date 09/10/2021 16:08:24 Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/565291 THE PUBLIC CAREER OF GENERAL LEW WALLACE, 1845-1905 by Lee Scott Theisen A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Graduate College THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GRADUATE COLLEGE I hereby recommend that this dissertation prepared under my direction by ' _______Lee Scott Theisen _____________________ entitled THE PUBLIC CAREER OF GENERAL LEW WALLACE. 1845-1905______________________________________ be accepted as fulfilling the dissertation requirement of the degree of ____________ Doctor of Philosophy __________________ 3 / 3 o / 7 3 Dissertation Director Date After inspection of the final copy of the dissertation, the following members of the Final Examination Committee concur in its approval and recommend its acceptance:* 3 /3 0 / 7 3 r/kZXr ? This approval and acceptance is contingent on the candidate's adequate performance and defense of this dissertation at the final oral examination* The inclusion of this sheet bound into the library copy of the dissertation is evidence of satisfactory performance at the final examination. STATEMENT BY AUTHOR This dissertation has been submitted in partial fulfillment of requirements for an advanced degree at The University of Arizona and is deposited in the University Library to be made available to borrowers under rules of the Library. Brief quotations from this dissertation are allowable without special permission, provided that accurate acknowledgment of source is made. Requests for permission for extended quotation from or reproduction of this manuscript in whole or in part may be granted by the copyright holder. © 1973 LEE SCOTT THEISM , ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. : PREFACE Lewis (Lew) Wallace of Indiana is largely remembered as the author of the classic novel, Ben-Hur. Wallace is therefore thought of primarily as a nineteenth century literary figure. What has been overlooked, or forgotten, about Wallace is that he had an impressive, active public career which spanned the last half of the nineteenth century and continued into the early years of the twentieth. In 1844, at eighteen, he organized his own militia company and marched off to the Mexican War. He entered Indiana and national politics in the 1850s. During the Civil War Wallace served as a major general, took part in important emancipation politics in Maryland, and under­ took a secret mission to assist the Juaristas in Mexico. Later he served his party as a visiting statesman in Florid governor of New Mexico Territory, Minister to Turkey; and. during his last years he remained active in local, national and international politics. His career touched many figures and events of his times. He knew and corresponded with men such as Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, William Chandler, Henry S. Lane, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Mark Hanna Carl Schurz, Theodore Roosevelt, John Chisum, Billy the Kid, and Sultan Abdul Hamid II, to name only a few. Wallace began his public career as a Whig, changed to a Douglas Democrat and flirted with Free Soil politics during the 1850s, and then joined the new Republican party during the Civil War. As a Republican his views reflected the thinking of the Radicals, then became more "regular" and finally reflected the growing tide of progressivism. Wallace's political activity encompassed everything from ward politics to national platform committees. He was a spoilsman and a partisan and proud of his party feeling. This dissertation is an attempt to portray the man and his times. In exploring the wealth of material, I found the most valuable to be nearly three score newspapers, and the nearly fifty large and small manuscript collections. Wallace's Autobiography. completed in 1906 by his wife and Hanna Krout proved useful both as a guide, and for what it failed to say. The only biography on Wallace, published in 1947, was written by Irving McKee entitled "Ben-Hur" Wallace. At the time the major manuscript collections on Wallace were unorganized and incomplete. Other collections were not consulted. McKee focused primarily on Wallace's literary career. While his work contains a few personal stories not found elsewhere, it makes little attempt to examine or offer criticism of Wallace's public career. It neglected both the central theme of Wallace's life and his political nature. Several articles have been written on Wallace, but they deal mainly with the military aspects of his life. The materials relating to Lew Wallace are widely scattered. The most extensive are in the Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, Indiana; and the Lilly Library of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Smaller collections can be found in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, the William R. Perkins Library of Duke University, and the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio. I have been assisted by many helpful individuals and organizations. These include the staffs of the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress, the library assistants at the Rutherford B. Hayes Library, the Henry E. Huntington Library, the State Records and Archives Center of New Mexico, and the University of Arizona Library. Special thanks go to Miss Caroline Dunn and Mrs. Leona Alig of the William Henry Smith Memorial Library of the Indiana His­ torical Society; John Selch and Mrs. Francis 3. Macdonald of the Indiana Historical Society; Miss Elfrida Lang and Mrs. Wilma Etnier of the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. A special note of gratitude also goes to Mr. George Spasyk of Indianapolis who provided a think tank and a haven for the weary researcher. Nor would this be complete without a word of gratitude for Dr. Harwood P. Hinton and the other members of my dissertation committee at The University of Arizona, Dr. Herman P. Bateman and Dr. John V. Mering. vii It would not be proper for me to close without expressing my thanks to my family. My long suffering wife and children were often heartlessly turned away from the door of my study where I worked and neglected them. My wife's long patience during my graduate study, her sugges­ tions and criticisms, will not be forgotten, and will, I hope, soon be more fully rewarded. Thanks of another sort must go to both my parents and to hers. TABLE OF CONTENTS Page AB |S .L* jL^ Qooooooooooooeooooooeco 3C CHAPTER 1. A BOY SURE TO BE HANGED, 1827-1853 2. "ONE OF GOD ALMIGHTY'S COOL HAWKS," POLITICS, 1854-1861 ....... o .... 27 3. "TO THE LAST MAN AND THE LAST DOLLAR," THE CIVIL WAR, 1861-1862 ........... 62 4. -"I AM ... AN OBJECT OF JEALOUSY," 1862—18 64 oeeooeeoeooooeeeoo 107 5. "YOU MAY SET ME DOWN AS ON THE RISE," 18 64—1866 .ooe ooooeooeoooo.o 139 6. "MEXICO WILL BE FOUND WRITTEN ON HIS HEART," 1865-1867 ...... .... ....... 177 7. POLITICS AS USUAL, 1868-1878 ........... 217 8. "THE LAND OF SUDDEN DEATH," GOVERNOR OF NEW MEXICO, 1878-1881 ............ 264 9. MISSION ON THE BOSPORUS, 1881-1885 ....... 311 10. SUCCESS, 1885-1892 ............... 363 11. ELDER STATESMAN, 1893-1905 ........... 391 12. CONCLUSION ................... 427 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ................ 434 viii ABSTRACT Lew Wallace was a successful working politician in the United States during the late nineteenth century. His activities involved state and national politics as well as administrative and diplomatic posts. Born in Indiana in 1827 into a prominent family, Wallace soon decided on a political career. Following his brief service in the Mexican War, he began his activity, changing from the Whig to the Democratic party. Wallace won election to several offices and established himself as a party leader. After the Civil War began, however, he became a Republican. During the Civil War, Wallace's interests turned to the military sphere. After brief service as state adjutant general he rose rapidly to the rank of major general. Following successes in Virginia and Tennessee, difficulties arose at Shiloh which ended his battlefield command. He spent the years from 1862 to 1864 in semi-active status. Finally, in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln selected him as Commander of the Middle Department and the Eighth Corps in Baltimore, Maryland. In Maryland, Wallace played an important role in the passage of the emancipation amendment to the state constitu­ tion and in the improvement of the position of the black ix X man. The post was suited to the talents of a political general. His delaying action at the battle of Monocacy in July, 1864 earned him further approval from the administra­ tion. Near the end of his command in Maryland, Wallace developed a plan to furnish military aid to the Liberal party in Mexico against the French and Confederates. During the years 1865 to 1867, he worked, albeit with little success, for the cause of the Liberal leader Benito Juarez, both in Mexico and the United States. In 1868 Wallace returned to Indiana politics. He served the Republican party during the decade in Indiana and elsewhere in the nation. In 1876 the party called on him to go to Florida as a visiting statesman to help manage the effort to save the state's electoral votes for Rutherford B. Hayes. There he played a major role in Hayes's vi ctory. Wallace served as Governor of New Mexico from 1878 to 1881.
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