To: mainepatsfan
For those who don't know, Lew Wallace was widely criticized for his marches and countermarches at Shiloh, and after the war wrote a novel about redemption, called Ben Hur.
2 posted on
07/09/2009 6:11:37 AM PDT by
LS
("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
To: LS
To: LS
Thanks for that info. Interesting historic tidbit.
To: LS
was charlton heston in the civil war too?
To: LS
long ago, I used to wonder why they never call
Ben Hur by it's correct title:
Ben-Hur: a tale of the Christ
I don't wonder anymore...
7 posted on
07/09/2009 6:55:01 AM PDT by
bill1952
(Choice is an illusion created between those with power - and those without)
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