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The Colored Cadet at West Point - Autobiography of Lieut Henry Ossian Flipper U S A First Graduate of Color From the U S Military Academy - cover

The Colored Cadet at West Point - Autobiography of Lieut Henry Ossian Flipper U S A First Graduate of Color From the U S Military Academy

Henry Ossian Flipper

Publisher: Madison & Adams Press

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Summary

"The following pages were written by request. They claim to give an accurate and impartial narrative of my four years' life while a cadet at West Point, as well as a general idea of the institution there. They are almost an exact transcription of notes taken at various times during those four years."
Available since: 07/19/2019.
Print length: 229 pages.

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