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Who adopted William Tecumseh Sherman after his father died?
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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 the death of his father, Judge Charles R. Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman was adopted by Thomas Ewing, a family friend and prominent Ohio politician.1