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#OnThisDay in 1910 A statue of Lew sculpted by Andrew O'Connor is unveiled in Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.

#OnThisDay in 1895 William Noble Wallace (Lew's grandson) is born.

#OnThisDay in 1862 Lew Wallace complains that his men have not been paid for five months. IN Govenor Oliver P. Morton ensures they are paid before January is over.

#OnThisDay in 1862 Brig. Gen Smith's command, including Lew Wallace, leaves Paducah on a 10-day march through sleet & mud to the Tennessee River; they reconnoiter Fort Henry and begin to plan. #CivilWar

#OnThisDay in 1887, the Lawrence, Kansas, Evening Tribune reported: "There are yet a few more full sized tickets left for the course of lectures headed by General Lew Wallace, January 22, 1887, who will have the next one. Remember the place, Plymouth church, south side."

#OnThisDay in 1862 the 11th Indiana is on the steamer ALECK SCOTT en route to attack Fort Henry on the Tennessee River #CivilWar

#OnThisDay in 1886 Lew apparently has his violin repaired by a violinmaker in Leipzig.

#OnThisDay in 1862 Fort Henry is captured.

#OnThisDay in 1862 CSA Brig. Gen. Gideon Pillow arrives at Fort Donelson (TN) and has his men improve the fort's defenses. Nearly 20,000 men are posted at Donelson.

#OnThisDay in 1862 Lew Wallace writes to Susan that he is in temp. command of two brigades at Fort Heiman, Tennessee. #CivilWar

#OnThisDay in 1862 at 2 pm, Lew Wallace takes part in a council of war at Grant's headquarters on the TIGRESS.

#OnThisDay in 1862 Lew is at the siege of Fort Donelson in Tennessee. Confederates makes a stand at Donelson with 12,000 men, who are soon faced by Grant’s army of 25,000. The fort is captured, but only after several Confederate officers escape.

#OnThisDay in 1905 Lew Wallace dies at the age of 77.

#OnThisDay in 1853 Henry Lane Wallace is born.

#OnThisDay in 1885 Lew Wallace sends his letter of resignation as U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire.

#OnThisDay in 1864 General Orders No. 97 gives Lew Wallace command of the 8th Army Corp & the Middle Department.

#OnThisDay in 1879, Lew Wallace meets with Billy the Kid while investigating the murder of attorney Huston Chapman.

#OnThisDay in 1862, Lew Wallace is promoted to the rank of Major General. He is 34, the youngest in the Union Army at that time.

#OnThisDay in 1864, Pres. Abraham Lincoln appointed Gen. Lew Wallace to command 8th Army Corps & Middle Department, HQ at Baltimore, MD.