Lecture Series Returns to Gen. Lew Wallace Study

In honor of America’s 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence this year, the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum is proud to present historian Gail Stephens, author of Shadow of Shiloh, her award-winning biography Wallace’s military career. Stephens will offer her program in Crawfordsville on Thursday 11 at 7 p.m. in the Carriage House Interpretive Center at the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum.

SDtephens will discuss Wallace’s Civil War career from his acclaimed 1861 victory in the mountains of Virginia to the 1864 battle of Monocacy, which saved Washington from Confederate seizure.  Her focus will be on his controversial role in the battle of Shiloh.  

She has a Bachelor’s Degree in International Politics from George Washington University in Washington DC. She did graduate work at Johns Hopkins and Harvard Universities. Stephens worked for the National Security Agency for 26 years before retiring in 1994 as a member of the Agency’s Senior Executive Service. Upon retirement, she began to study the American Civil War.

In 2002, she won the National Park Service’s E.W. Peterkin Award for her contributions to public understanding of Civil War history.  Her book on Wallace’s Civil War career, Shadow of Shiloh: Major General Lew Wallace in the Civil War, published in October 2010 by the Indiana Historical Society Press, won the Civil War Forum of New York City’s William Henry Seward Award for best Civil War biography of 2011.

In 2015, she moved to New Mexico.  She is currently drafting a book on Wallace’s tough tenure as Territorial Governor of New Mexico during the era of Lincoln County War.

This presentation is free and open to the public and the Carriage House is ADA accessible, seating is limited and reservations are strongly suggested. For more information visit our website: www.ben-hur.com or call Thomas Meeks at (765) 362-5769 or email tmeeks@ben-hur.com.