“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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