The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper U. S. A. First Graduate of Color from the U. S. Military Academy (Blacks in the American West Series)

Henry Ossian Flipper was one of the nineteenth-century Wests most remarkable individuals. He served four years in the West as a cavalry officer but was court-martialed and dismissed from the service in 1882. This book contains historian Quintard Taylors biographical essay Flippers account of his career at West Point and an index.