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ney in 180t, and as a counsellor at law in 1807, commencing practice in Burlington, N.J. He served in the war of 1812, commanding a volun- teer regiment from Trenton at Sandy Hook ; was clerk of tlie sujjreme court of New Jersey, 1812- 17, and quartermaster-general of the state, IHI.")- 37. He was a member of the general assembly, 1827 ; was electetl governor of New Jersey in 1829, but declined the office to become CS. district attorney, to which office he had been appointed in the same year, and was elected as a Dem- ocrat, U.S. senator from New Jersey, serving, 18:3.')-41. His son, James Walter (1820-72), Col- lege of New Jersey. A.B., 1838. A.M., 1841, was mayor of Burlington, N.J., 1854 ; U.S. senator, to fill the unexpired term of John R. Tliompson, Jan. 21 -March 3. 1863. and author of " Foreign Etdiings " (18.jG), and *' Essays on the Early Eng- lisli Poets "' in the Kuickerbocl-er Magazine. Garret D. Wall was judge of the court of errors and appeals of New Jersey from 1848 until his d&itli, in Burlington, N.J., Nov. 22, 1850.

WALLACE, David, governor of Indiana, was born in Mifflin county. Pa., April 24, 1799; son of Andrew and Catlierine Wallace. He removed with Ills parents to Brookville, Ind., in 1817 ; was graduated from the U.S. Military academy, brevet 2d lieutenant of 2d artillery, July 1, 1821, and promoted 2d lieutenant on the same day. He then served as assistant professor of mathe- matics at the U.S. Military academy ; resigned his commission, and returned to Brookville, Ind., where he studied law and was admitted to the bar as counselor-at-law in 1824. He was a mem- ber of the state legislature. 1828-80, removing in tlie latter year to Covington, Ind. ; lieutenant- governor of the state, 1831-37, and governor, 1837-tO. He was a Whig representative from the Indianapolis district of Indiana in the 27th congress, 1841-43, and forfeited his re-election by casting the decisive vote in favor of an appropri- ation of $40,000 for the experimental Morse tele- graph line from Washington to Baltimore. He was a member of the state constitutional con- vention of 18.50, and judge of the court of common pleas of Marijn coimty, 18.56-.59. He was twice married : first, Nov. 10, 1824. to Esther, daugh- terof Judge John Test of Brookville, Indiana. She died in 18:i7, leaving three sons, William, Lewis (q.v.) and Edward Wallace. Judge Wal- lace was married, secondly. Dec. 26, 1836, to Zerelda, daughter of Dr. John H. and Polly C. (Gray) Sanders of Indianapolis. He died in In- dianapolis. Ind.. Sept. 4. 1859.

WALLACE, Lewis, soldier, diplomatist and author, was born in Brwkville, Ind.. April 10, 1827 : s^m of Gov. David (q.v.) and Esther (Test) Wallar-e. He was mainly splf-educated. attenrling Wabash college, Crawfordsville. Ind.. for a few

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months in 1837, and subsequently began the study of law with his father. He enlisted in Company H, 1st Indiana regiment, for service in the Mex- ican war, and was elected and mustered in as 2d lieutenant. He subsequently resumed the study of law ; was admitted to the bar in 1849, and began practice in Covington, Ind, He was married in Crawfordsville, Ind., May 6, 1852, to Susan Arnold Elston. He removed to Craw- fordsville in 1853, having been elected for a second term as prosecuting attor- ney for the eighth judicial district of Indiana. He was appointed adjutant- general of Indiana in April, 1861 ; the same month was made colonel of the 11th Indiana Zouaves, which regiment he had organized and drilled, and was ordered with his regiment to Cumberland, Md. Colonel Wallace led liis reg- iment against a Confederate force of 2000 at Romney, Va., June 13, 1861, which resulted in General Johnston's evacuation of Harper's Ferry ; was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers, Sept. 3, 1861, and at the battle and capture of Fort Donelson, Tenn., Feb. 15-16. 1862. commanded the 3d division in Grant's Army of the Tennessee, his efficiency on this occasion resulting in his pro- motion to the rank of major-general of volun- teers, March 21, 1862, At the battle of Shiloh following, General Wallace was stationed at Crump's Landing on April 6, where he received an order from General Grant to join the right of the army. He took the .shortest road and was Hearing the battlefield when he received a second order directing him to return and go to Pittsburg Landing at wliieh place he arrived in the even- ing. On the following day his division, occupy- ing the extreme right of Grant's force, rendered valiant and effective service. General Wallace served as president of the court of inquirj- ap. pointed to investigate Gen. Don Carlos Buell's campaign in Tennessee and Kentucky, November, 1862; prepared the defences of Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1863, thereby averting the capture of that city by Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith ; later com- manded the Middle department and 8th army corps, Baltimore, Md., and on July 9, 1864, hastened with an inferior force to Monocacy, where he engaged General Early in battle, and by this delay checked the latter's advance upon Washington, D.C., until troops could be sent from