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
U.S. 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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