Although not a strong abolitionist at the start of the American Civil War, Indiana's Republican governor Oliver P. Wallace first met Abraham Lincoln after the Mexican War, and his admiration for the fellow lawyer contributed to Wallace's decision to join the Republican Party. They had one son, Henry Lane Wallace (1853–1926). On in Crawfordsville, Wallace married Susan Arnold Elston. In 1856, he was elected to the Indiana State Senate after moving his residence to Crawfordsville. In 1851, he was elected prosecuting attorney of Indiana's 1st congressional district. After hostilities, he was mustered out of the volunteer service on June 15, 1847. He rose to the position of regimental adjutant and the rank of first lieutenant, serving in the army of Zachary Taylor, although he personally did not participate in combat. He left that pursuit to raise a company of militia and was elected a second lieutenant in the 1st Indiana Infantry regiment. In 1846, at the start of the Mexican-American War, Wallace was studying law. Lew Wallace rejoined his father in Indianapolis.
His father remarried, to Zerelda Gray Sanders Wallace, a prominent suffragist and temperance advocate, who was stepmother to the boys. In 1836, at the age of nine, he joined his brother in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he briefly attended Wabash Preparatory School. Wallace's autobiography contains many stories from his boyhood in Covington, including the account of the death of his mother in 1834. When Wallace's father was elected as lieutenant governor of Indiana, he moved his family to Covington, Indiana. His father was a graduate of the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, and served as lieutenant governor and governor of Indiana. Wallace was born in Brookville, Indiana, to David Wallace and Esther French (Test) Wallace. Of his novels and biographies, he is best known for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), a bestselling book since its publication, and called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century." It has been adapted four times for films. Wallace served as governor of the New Mexico Territory at the time of the Lincoln County War and worked to bring an end to the fighting. Lewis "Lew" Wallace (April 10, 1827 – February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, territorial governor and statesman, politician, and author. Susan Arnold Elston Wallace (married 1852) Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Indiana United States Minister to the Ottoman Empire
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