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W.H. Wallace
(1827 - 1901)
Home State: South Carolina
Education: South Carolina College, Class of 1849
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 18th South Carolina Infantry
see his Battle Report
Before Sharpsburg
He was a planter in the Union District, SC until 1857, when he became the proprietor of the Union Times newspaper. In 1859 he began the practice of law at Union.
He enlisted as a Private in Company A, 18th South Carolina Infantry on 3 January 1862 and was appointed Lieutenant and Adjutant on 15 January. The regiment was reorganized on 5 May 1862 and Wallace was elected Lieutenant Colonel. He was promoted Colonel to date from 20 August 1862, in place of Colonel James M. Gadberry, killed at Second Manassas.
On the Campaign
He commanded the regiment on the Campaign.
The rest of the War
He took over brigade command after Brigadier General Stephen Elliot was wounded at the Crater near Petersburg, VA in July 1864, and was promoted to Brigadier General on 20 September 1864. He led the Brigade to the surrender at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865.
After the War
He was again a planter and lawyer, and was elected to the State legislature in 1872-1876. In 1877 he was appointed judge of the Seventh Circuit Court, and he retired in 1893.
References & notes
Birth
3/24/1827; Laurens District, SC
Death
3/21/1901; Union, SC; burial in Old Presbyterian Cemetery, Union, SC
1 Evans, Clement Anselm, editor, Confederate Military History, 12 Volumes, Atlanta: The Confederate Publishing Company, 1899, Vol. 5 [AotW citation 31847]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31848]
3 Miller, Francis Trevelyan, editor in chief, Photographic History of the Civil War, 10 vols., New York: The Review of Reviews Co., 1911-12, Vol. 10, p. 283 [AotW citation 31849]