Charlton Heston starring in 1959's 'Ben-Hur' (MGM)
(FOX NEWS) -- Union general turned author and Christian soldier Lewis Wallace wrote two stories of redemption after the Civil War.
Wallace scripted his personal deliverance following the national disgrace he suffered when he was wrongly blamed for the U.S. Army's tragic loss of life at the Battle of Shiloh in 1862.
In his second tale of redemption, the Indiana native wrote "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ," his thrilling and globally renowned biblical epic, in 1880.
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