Description: Colored Cadet at West Point : Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, ., First Graduate of Color from the . Military Academy, Paperback by Flipper, Henry Ossian, ISBN 0803268904, ISBN-13 9780803268906, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Henry Ossian Flipper was one of the nineteenth-century West&;s most remarkable individuals. The first African American graduate of West Point, he served four years in the West as a cavalry officer but was court-martialed and dismissed from the service in 1882. He spent the rest of his long life attempting to clear his name. Flipper&;s record of accomplishment was significant for any individual in any time, and for a nineteenth-century black American it was phenomenal. As historian Quintard Taylor points out, in his post-Army career Flipper was a surveyor, cartographer, civil and mining engineer, interpreter, translator, historian, inventor, newspaper editor, special agent for the Justice Department, deputy . mineral surveyor, aide to the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, and consultant to the secretary of the interior. His work carried him to Mexico, Venezuela, and Spain, and he left a record of achievement that demonstrates his enormous talent and unrelenting effort. The Colored Cadet at West Point contains Taylor&;s biographical essay, Flipper&;s account of his career at West Point, and a new index prepared for this volume.
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Book Title: Colored Cadet at West Point : Autobiography of Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper, U. S. A. , First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy
Number of Pages: 332 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: United States / 19th Century, General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 1998
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Author: Henry Ossian Flipper
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
