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How did Thomas Ewing help William Tecumseh Sherman attend West Point?
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William Tecumseh Sherman
General William T. Sherman in uniform and wearing a mourning ribbon for President Lincoln, photograph by Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries, 1865.
Thomas Ewing, a family friend and prominent Ohio Whig politician who had adopted William Tecumseh Sherman following the death of Sherman's father, helped him attend West Point by obtaining an appointment for him when Sherman was 16 years old.1