Who Was Lew?

2014 West then East, Civil War, Indiana, Road Trip, States

Last night as we were driving into Indianapolis, we noticed a sign mentioning General Lew Wallace. Since neither of us recognized the name we googled it and found a lengthy article that gave an excellent overview of his life and accomplishments. Then today we went in search of a geocache that took us to the grounds of the  General Lew Wallace Study and Museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana where we lingered to to learn more about this man who was a Union general, author of Ben-Hur, governor of the territory of New Mexico , and diplomat to Turkey!

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