He resigned from the army in 1855 to become a banker in San Francisco. When his bank failed, he moved to Leavenworth to practice law, and was superintendent of the military academy in Alexandria, Louisiana when the Civil War broke out. FTP, identif  y this general, who became a major general after Shiloh and who, as commander of the Army of the Tennessee, left Chattanooga 
He resigned from the army in 1855 to become a banker in San Francisco. When his bank failed, he moved to Leavenworth to practice law, and was superintendent of the military academy in Alexandria, Louisiana when the Civil War broke out. FTP, identif  y this general, who became a major general after Shiloh and who, as commander of the Army of the Tennessee, left Chattanooga in May 1864 and marched through Georgia.
He resigned from the army in 1855 to become a banker in San Francisco.
William Tecumseh Sherman