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If anyone is interested, public domain images of Lew Wallace can be found here; generalsandbrevets.com. Delta Tango • Talk 14:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
"Serives"? Copey 2 ( talk) 12:40, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Did he go to West Point?
Tashiro ( talk) 01:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
what is Wallace's middle name, please answer, I'm currently writing an article on Wallace and if I don't find his middle name I'll fail - Shay —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.234.153.184 ( talk) 02:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
„Wallace made two unsuccessful bids for a seat in Congress (in 1868 and 1870), and supported Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes in the 1878 election.”
?? Hayes was president already from 1877! 80.99.217.173 ( talk) 12:44, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
The ordered movements, and the actual movements, of Wallace's division appear to be adequately described, but without a map the account is still confusing. Terry Thorgaard ( talk) 17:56, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
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Re: Spacini's edit summary, "the fact that he was born "Lewis" and chose to style himself after about 30 for the remainder of his life as "Lew" takes precedent over the MOS", I couldn't disagree more. The significance that he went by "Lew" as his WP:COMMONNAME is clear in that it is the name of the article, and is not in dispute. What the MOS specifically calls out is instances in which the common name and the article name are the hypocorism and it is an obvious/common nickname from the birth name, such as Thomas -> Tom, or... Lewis-> Lew. This is a totally different circumstance than if the article were named Lewis Wallace and Spacini wanted to impart the significance of him going by "Lew" later, which is what the edit summary suggests is the rationale. The page should stay named "Lew Wallace" and the into should just list his birthname, "Lewis Wallace" and we'll trust the reader to figure out the derivation of Lew. JesseRafe ( talk) 16:51, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
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Under “Shiloh Controversy”:
“After W. H. L. Wallace's widow gave Grant a letter that Lew Wallace had written to her the day before the battle (the one indicating his plans to use the Shunpike road to pass between Shiloh and his position west of Crump's Landing), Grant changed his mind.”
Has anyone ever answered why a division commander, while a major battle was imminent, would write the wife of another division commander a letter at all, let alone one discussing impending logistical strategy? This seems to me one of the oddest events of the war. And why did the widow of General W. H. L. Wallace wait so long before divulging its contents to General Grant if she had presumably been aware of the controversy? HistoryBuff14 ( talk) 16:20, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
The section on Billy Bonney is mostly just the plot of Young Guns II, which is fiction. Two major points, among several, Bonney wrote to Wallace to offer testimony in exchange for his indictments being annulled, meaning, importantly, that Bonney initiated contact. Wallace said he had the power to exempt Bonney from prosecution if he testified, and that was the agreement, not a pardon as Wallace claimed 20 years later (a pardon requires finding of guilt; Bonney had not yet been tried). Garrett was elected sheriff (likely with the help of the Santa Fe Ring); he was NOT HIRED by Wallace and ranchers. 71.178.172.16 ( talk) 18:35, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
The paragraph re Gov. Richardson's decision not to pardon Billy the Kid in 2010 is irrelevant to the subject of Lew Wallace. BiographyHound ( talk) 11:46, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
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If anyone is interested, public domain images of Lew Wallace can be found here; generalsandbrevets.com. Delta Tango • Talk 14:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
"Serives"? Copey 2 ( talk) 12:40, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
Did he go to West Point?
Tashiro ( talk) 01:23, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
what is Wallace's middle name, please answer, I'm currently writing an article on Wallace and if I don't find his middle name I'll fail - Shay —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.234.153.184 ( talk) 02:20, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
„Wallace made two unsuccessful bids for a seat in Congress (in 1868 and 1870), and supported Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes in the 1878 election.”
?? Hayes was president already from 1877! 80.99.217.173 ( talk) 12:44, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
The ordered movements, and the actual movements, of Wallace's division appear to be adequately described, but without a map the account is still confusing. Terry Thorgaard ( talk) 17:56, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
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Re: Spacini's edit summary, "the fact that he was born "Lewis" and chose to style himself after about 30 for the remainder of his life as "Lew" takes precedent over the MOS", I couldn't disagree more. The significance that he went by "Lew" as his WP:COMMONNAME is clear in that it is the name of the article, and is not in dispute. What the MOS specifically calls out is instances in which the common name and the article name are the hypocorism and it is an obvious/common nickname from the birth name, such as Thomas -> Tom, or... Lewis-> Lew. This is a totally different circumstance than if the article were named Lewis Wallace and Spacini wanted to impart the significance of him going by "Lew" later, which is what the edit summary suggests is the rationale. The page should stay named "Lew Wallace" and the into should just list his birthname, "Lewis Wallace" and we'll trust the reader to figure out the derivation of Lew. JesseRafe ( talk) 16:51, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
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Under “Shiloh Controversy”:
“After W. H. L. Wallace's widow gave Grant a letter that Lew Wallace had written to her the day before the battle (the one indicating his plans to use the Shunpike road to pass between Shiloh and his position west of Crump's Landing), Grant changed his mind.”
Has anyone ever answered why a division commander, while a major battle was imminent, would write the wife of another division commander a letter at all, let alone one discussing impending logistical strategy? This seems to me one of the oddest events of the war. And why did the widow of General W. H. L. Wallace wait so long before divulging its contents to General Grant if she had presumably been aware of the controversy? HistoryBuff14 ( talk) 16:20, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
The section on Billy Bonney is mostly just the plot of Young Guns II, which is fiction. Two major points, among several, Bonney wrote to Wallace to offer testimony in exchange for his indictments being annulled, meaning, importantly, that Bonney initiated contact. Wallace said he had the power to exempt Bonney from prosecution if he testified, and that was the agreement, not a pardon as Wallace claimed 20 years later (a pardon requires finding of guilt; Bonney had not yet been tried). Garrett was elected sheriff (likely with the help of the Santa Fe Ring); he was NOT HIRED by Wallace and ranchers. 71.178.172.16 ( talk) 18:35, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
The paragraph re Gov. Richardson's decision not to pardon Billy the Kid in 2010 is irrelevant to the subject of Lew Wallace. BiographyHound ( talk) 11:46, 26 March 2024 (UTC)