Wallace was a druggist in Indianapolis at the breaking out of the Civil War, and a member of the Independent Zouaves. He enlisted on the day of President Lincoln's first call for volunteers, April 16, 1861, and was commissioned lieutenant, Company H, Eleventh Indiana Infantry. He reenlisted in the Thirteenth Indiana Infantry (Old Guard), and was promoted respectively Lieutenant and Captain of Company H. Later he was appointed aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Jerry C. Sullivan and Major General Robert S. Foster.
Wallace married Jane Miller Doggett at Columbus, Ohio, on April 25, 1866. He was connected with the United States Pay Department, later commissioned on special service at Cairo, Illinois, and Memphis, Tennessee. He was a charter member of George H. Thomas Post, No. 17, G.A.R., of Indianapolis. He served as record clerk of the Consumers' Natural Gas Trust Company, of Indianapolis, and in his last years worked for a firm specializing in patriotic supplies.
He was best known in Indianapolis as "The Flag Man," for his frequent visits to schools to instruct school children on patritotism and love of the flag. The school children loved him, and on his passing he lay in state at the nearby schoolhouse, his coffin draped in the silk flag the school had received from him. He was described in the National Humane Review as "a splendid, courtly gentleman of the old school, whose heart was wrapped up in patriotism and the cause of humanity."
Wallace married Jane Miller Doggett at Columbus, Ohio, on April 25, 1866. He was connected with the United States Pay Department, later commissioned on special service at Cairo, Illinois, and Memphis, Tennessee. He was a charter member of George H. Thomas Post, No. 17, G.A.R., of Indianapolis. He served as record clerk of the Consumers' Natural Gas Trust Company, of Indianapolis, and in his last years worked for a firm specializing in patriotic supplies.
He was best known in Indianapolis as "The Flag Man," for his frequent visits to schools to instruct school children on patritotism and love of the flag. The school children loved him, and on his passing he lay in state at the nearby schoolhouse, his coffin draped in the silk flag the school had received from him. He was described in the National Humane Review as "a splendid, courtly gentleman of the old school, whose heart was wrapped up in patriotism and the cause of humanity."
Wallace was a druggist in Indianapolis at the breaking out of the Civil War, and a member of the Independent Zouaves. He enlisted on the day of President Lincoln's first call for volunteers, April 16, 1861, and was commissioned lieutenant, Company H, Eleventh Indiana Infantry. He reenlisted in the Thirteenth Indiana Infantry (Old Guard), and was promoted respectively Lieutenant and Captain of Company H. Later he was appointed aide-de-camp to Brigadier General Jerry C. Sullivan and Major General Robert S. Foster.
Wallace married Jane Miller Doggett at Columbus, Ohio, on April 25, 1866. He was connected with the United States Pay Department, later commissioned on special service at Cairo, Illinois, and Memphis, Tennessee. He was a charter member of George H. Thomas Post, No. 17, G.A.R., of Indianapolis. He served as record clerk of the Consumers' Natural Gas Trust Company, of Indianapolis, and in his last years worked for a firm specializing in patriotic supplies.
He was best known in Indianapolis as "The Flag Man," for his frequent visits to schools to instruct school children on patritotism and love of the flag. The school children loved him, and on his passing he lay in state at the nearby schoolhouse, his coffin draped in the silk flag the school had received from him. He was described in the National Humane Review as "a splendid, courtly gentleman of the old school, whose heart was wrapped up in patriotism and the cause of humanity."
Wallace married Jane Miller Doggett at Columbus, Ohio, on April 25, 1866. He was connected with the United States Pay Department, later commissioned on special service at Cairo, Illinois, and Memphis, Tennessee. He was a charter member of George H. Thomas Post, No. 17, G.A.R., of Indianapolis. He served as record clerk of the Consumers' Natural Gas Trust Company, of Indianapolis, and in his last years worked for a firm specializing in patriotic supplies.
He was best known in Indianapolis as "The Flag Man," for his frequent visits to schools to instruct school children on patritotism and love of the flag. The school children loved him, and on his passing he lay in state at the nearby schoolhouse, his coffin draped in the silk flag the school had received from him. He was described in the National Humane Review as "a splendid, courtly gentleman of the old school, whose heart was wrapped up in patriotism and the cause of humanity."
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