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Where did William Tecumseh Sherman serve after graduating from West Point in 1840?
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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.
After graduating from West Point in 1840, William Tecumseh Sherman was initially sent to fight the Seminole people in Florida. Following this service, he was transferred to Fort Moultrie in South Carolina.1