This was the man who was hoping for glory in the War between the States. His delight in them led him straight into history, of course, and Wallace remembered a summer spent with his brother William and their playmates reenacting the famous battles of Scottish history as they were described in a historical novel by Jane Porter. In his old age, he remembered back to his school days in the 1830s and a sight that gave him a lifelong love of the military life.įrom then on, soldiers and battles were all he thought of. It was all the more irksome for Wallace because he had never wanted to be anything other than a great soldier. When they did arrive, they were exhausted from a long roundabout march. But he and his men had missed much of the worst of the battle.
A messenger caught up with him at last, and Wallace turned around. He was taking another road - one that would have led his little force right into the back of the Confederate army. Grant insisted that he had sent Wallace orders to go by one road Wallace insisted that he never got those orders. The answer was that he was on his way to where he thought Grant was, but Grant had moved. Where was General Lew Wallace when Grant needed him at Shiloh? That was the question that would haunt Lew Wallace’s career for the rest of his life. The Confederate forces have pushed Grant’s men back to the river.
General Grant is in bad shape: his horse fell on him a few days ago, and he can’t walk without crutches. It’s the bloodiest battle of the Civil War so far - Shiloh, a name that will live on in the history as a representative bloodbath.
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