The Colored Cadet at West Point: A Memoir of West Point and the First African American Cadet

A first-person account of military training and institutional life, documenting the experience of the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point. Henry Ossian Flipper recounts his years at the academy with attention to both formal instruction and the social conditions that shaped his experience, offering a detailed record of discipline, isolation, and perseverance.

The narrative proceeds with clarity and restraint, describing the structure ...