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fantry, but before the war was over had been 

 promoted to a major-generalship. He was in 

 the engagement at Shiloh and served on vari- 

 ous courts, notably that which tried the com- 

 mandant of the prison at Anderson ville and 

 that which tried the conspirators against Lin- 

 coln. 



In 1865 he resumed law practice at Craw- 

 fordsville, five years later was appointed gov- 

 ernor of New Mexico, and during Garfield's 

 administration was minister to Turkey. Wallace 

 was popular as a lecturer and attained a wide 

 reputation as the author of three novels The 

 Prince of India; The Fair God, a tale of the 

 conquest of Mexico, and Ben Hur, a tale of the 

 time of Christ. This last-named book was 

 very successfully dramatized, its strength lying 

 in its spectacular rather than in its dramatic 

 features. Few books of the century have been 

 more popular than Ben Hur. 



WALLACE, SIR WILLIAM (about 1272-1305), 

 whose name for 700 years has inspired Scots to 

 deeds of bravery, was the first of the great 

 Scotch patriots. 



In 1296 the English king, Edward I, deposed 

 the Scotch king and stationed English soldiers 

 in Scotland. Wallace, a young man of unusual 

 strength and courage, one day quarreled with 

 soldiers who had called him a "wretched Scots- 

 man," killed one, and fled to the Highlands. 

 Gathering a band of bold men, he began to 

 make attacks on the English. At Stirling 

 Bridge, near which now stands his monument, 

 a great stone tower, he routed an army sent 

 against him. Then King Eflward came home 

 from France and led a larger force against the 

 Scotch. At Falkirk his armored soldiers de- 

 feated Wallace's poorly-clad peasants, and for 

 seven years the "guardian of Scotland" was 

 obliged to hide in the mountains. When cap- 

 tured he was executed as 'a traitor, though he 

 had never sworn allegiance to England. 



In Burns' famous poem Bannockburn Robert 

 Bruce begins his stirring address to his soldiers : 



"Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled." 



Thousands of boys and girls have found fasci- 

 nation in the story of Wallace's heroic deeds as 

 told in Jane Porter's Scottish Chiefs. 



Consult Murison's Sir William Wallace; Moir's 

 Sir William Wallace. 



WALLACEBURG, wol' ays burg, a town in 

 Kent County, Ontario, in the southwestern part 

 of the Ontario peninsula. It is about sixty 

 miles northeast of Detroit, on the Erie and 

 Huron division of the Pere Marquette Rail- 



road, and is eighteen miles northwest of Chat- 

 ham and thirty-one miles south of Sarnia. 

 Lake boats drawing not more than eighteen 

 feet ascend the River Sydenham as far as Wal- 

 laceburg. The Chatham, Wallaceburg & Lake 

 Erie, an electric railroad, also provides trans- 

 portation facilities. Population in 1911, 3,438; 

 in 1916, estimated, 4,600. 



The town is noted as the center of the On- 

 tario beet-sugar industry ; the sugar refinery has 

 an annual output valued at $8,000,000. There 

 are also a large glass factory, with 600 to 800 

 employees, a brass and iron foundry, and other 

 manufacturing establishments. The town has a 

 large supply of natural gas, which is sold to 

 manufacturers at a very low rate. Electric 

 current, for power and lighting, is derived from 

 Niagara Falls. 



WALLA WALLA, wol' a wol' a, WASH., the 

 county seat of Walla Walla County, is situated 

 in the southeastern part of the state, on Mill 

 Creek. It is about 200 miles southwest of 

 Spokane and 245 miles northeast of Portland. 

 A hard-surfaced road extends thirty miles west 

 to Wallula, a port on the Columbia River, 

 which has boat connections to Lewiston, Idaho, 

 and Astoria, Oregon. Railroad transportation 

 is provided by the Northern Pacific and the 

 Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation 

 Company. Population in 1910, 19,364; in 1916, 

 25,136 (Federal estimate). 



Walla Walla is the seat of Whitman College, 

 Walla Walla College, Saint Paul's School for 

 Girls, De La Salle Institute and Saint Vincent's 

 Academy. Interesting features of the city are 

 a Federal building, completed in 1913 at a cost 

 of $125,000, a courthouse, built in 1916 at a cost 

 of $200,000, a Carnegie Library, Saint Mary's 

 Hospital and a $220,000 high school building. 

 There are several public playgrounds; the 

 largest, City Park, contains forty acres. Walla 

 Walla is in a county whose annual wheat pro- 

 duction is approximately 4,000,000 bushels. 

 Fruit, vegetables, dairy and poultry products 

 and live stock are important products of the 

 city and surrounding territory. In the city 

 there are meat and cold-storage plants and 

 manufactories of harvesting machinery. The 

 town, first called Steptoe City, grew up about a 

 fort established in 1856. The place was char- 

 tered as a city in 1868, and in 1911 adopted the 

 commission plan of government. Walla Walla 

 is the Indian term for rushing water. o.c.s. 



WALLENSTEIN, wol'enstine, ALBERT Eu- 

 SEBIUS WENZEL VON, Duke of Friedland, Sagan 

 and Mecklenburg (1583-1634), a German gen- 



