![]() ![]() “Ingersoll was in prime mood and beginning, his ideas turned to speech, slowing like a heated river. In his Autobiography Wallace describes the scene on the train: Ingersoll challenged Wallace’s religious beliefs. When he departed the train, Wallace decided to look into what he did and did not believe. ![]() He invited the General into his compartment to talk. One evening General Wallace was on a train going from Crawfordsville, Indiana to Indianapolis when he heard someone call out his name. Ingersoll had been a colonel with the 11th Illinois Cavalry and had served under General Wallace. Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899) “The Great Agnostic” The reason Wallace wrote the book involves a conversation with Robert Ingersoll, the leading atheist of his time who travelled the country giving popular speeches against God, Jesus Christ, the Bible, heaven and hell. He was a Union General in the Civil War, a lawyer, politician and author. Lew Wallace published the book Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ in 1880. ![]()
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