William T. Sherman’s Army career wasn’t going too well after graduating sixth in his class at the U.S. Military Academy in 1840, according to his biography from the Civil War Trust, a nonprofit dedicated to the “preservation of America’s hallowed battlegrounds.”
As the commanding general in Europe during World War II, Dwight D. Eisenhower it wasn’t immediately apparent that some day he would be a two-term president of the United States.
