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How did William Tecumseh Sherman perform at the U.S. Military Academy at 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.
William Tecumseh Sherman performed well during his time at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, graduating near the head of his class in 1840.1