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Why did William Tecumseh Sherman miss fighting in the Mexican-American War?
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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 did not participate in the Mexican-American War because he was stationed in California serving as an administrative officer during the conflict. While many of his contemporaries who would later become prominent American Civil War generals gained vital combat experience in Mexico, Sherman remained occupied with his administrative duties in the West.12