The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-02-20
he Always smartcd Under tho stis.
ma Of Plttsburg Landlns--A5L la.
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Graceful Tribute.

borlous Wrlter-earfleld'a
Graceful Tribute. r, u
#y Gen. Lew Wallace, who diod8last
Wednesday at his home iny craW:
louisville, Ind, commandedsa dlyls:
ion on the second day Of tho battle,of
lPittsb,lrg Landing Shiloh /. His fall.
ure $to arrive on the field from his
Headquarters at Crumps! Landing, six
miles from Plttsburg Landing, and
take part in the action OF tho first
day, resulting, as his critics declared,
in Grants being driven back, caus.
ed one Of the Ebltterest controversies
OF tho war. A year ago lasti3Aprll,
on the forty.second anniversary OF
the battle, Gen. Wallace, In "a speech
on the field, defended himself from
the charge Of disobeying orders, and
declared that Grants army was sur,
prised on the morning Of tho first
day by Gen. Johnson's troops. Gen.
Grant, despite the unfortunate mlsun,
derstanding, retained the utmost con.
fldenco In him, and had Wallace.
sent to- tho Rio Grande toward the
close of the war to set on foot Sc.
cret negotiations for the surrender
of the Confederate forces In | Texas
and tho forestalllng Of the French de.
signs in Mexico. That Wallace al:
ways smarted under the stigma cast
upon him was eylnced when in$ 1893
he walked into the Headquarters Of
Col. Smiths regiment at I Camp Mt.
Indianapolis, and offered to enlist as
a$priyate that he might wipe Sout
whatever stain his name bore. III
military annals. OF course, Col.
Smith had no authority to accept a
recruit, but his action was comment.
cd upon at the time, says the Pitts.
burg Times. q
When President Cleveland during
the Venezuelan incident declared IN
favor OF resisting with force, of nee.
essary, all monarchical encroach:
ments on the Western hemisphere,
Gen. Wallace offered Immediately to
raise a brigade in Indiana to fight
England. He made a speech 4 at d d
Loyal Legion dinner in indianapolis
IN which he said that within i,.S year ,yesli!
from the declaration Of; war there
would be- no British commerce Z and
that the end, as he saw It, would
be that the United States would
own everything from the Gulf Of
Mexico to the North Pole. I
Gen. Wallace wrote only BY labo.
rious study and palnstaklng toll. He
was his own best critic and s alr,,ti!
ICED every line before The lett an an.
pear In his final copy His habItSwais
to; write the rough draftSo of bis ideas
on a slate, SO that erasureas could be,
made easily, then to transfer the
writing with "a soft pencil to l paper.
and an finally, when all was to his salts.
faction, to copy the book in Ink with
1.-THE precision of a clerk. When Ben
Hnr" was sent TO Harper's it was
beautifully executed in purple Ink. ey ,..
cry line exact in length, every page
OF writing almost identical b ii the
number OF words with an ordinary
printed page. This was the book
that the publishing house hesitatetl
for a time about accepting, fearing Inc:
that 1t might mot prove, 4 a / financial
success. It is 3 said that Ben Hur's
has geen translated into every; in i'm;
portant tongue In the world.
|, General 1yallace's appointment 4 as
minister to Turkey was a direct rec.
ignition Of his move, r len HUI. ia
had been On the market for o 81 VI "
few weeks when President Garfield
sent forSthes auth or. lsj,;j
& want to send yoii as minister tod
Turkey N said the Preside rhea
labor " VI leave you plenty stfmel
fors writ ting and want Won 10 swell
me q book On constantipople;l,
IN The lower ieft-hand corner oft
the Generals commission, in the writ. |