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Why did William Tecumseh Sherman resign from the U.S. Army in 1853?
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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 resigned from the U.S. Army in 1853 primarily due to the lure of the California Gold Rush. Following his resignation, he moved to San Francisco to join a banking firm.1