His defining moment occurred in 1864 during the Battle of Monocacy: he stopped Confederate forces from invading Washington, D.C. By 1864, he served as the commander of the VIII Army Corps in Baltimore. Wallace fought in numerous battles such as the Battle of Shiloh and Battle of Fort Donelson. Surprisingly, Grant promoted Wallace to serve as major general. Wallace resigned from his position and soon joined the Union Army of the Tennessee, under the leadership of General Ulysses S. Shortly after, Wallace rejoined the military moreover, he was promoted to state adjutant general of Indiana regiments in 1861 until his promotion a month later to colonel of the 11 th Regiment of Indiana Volunteers (Leepson, 2017). He had dabbled in local and states politics serving as the prosecuting attorney in Covington, Indiana and as a state senator (Leepson, 2017 National Governors Association, 2015). Source: University Archives & Special Collections
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