The Brig. Gen. W. H. L. Wallace, who is reported killed at the lat battle in Tennessee, is supposed by many of our citizens, to be Gen. Lew. Wallace. This surmise we have no doubt is incorrect. We think the telegraph has the name right, and that the deceased is the Wallace who, as colonel of an Indiana regiment, has figured somewhat conspicuously around Cairo and Paducah during the past season. He, we believe, commanded a brigade at Fort Donelson. Gen. Lew. Wallace won his first star in Western Virginia, and his second at Fort Donelson, which was his first fighting in the western department.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 10, 1862, p. 1
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