Calm "Under Fire".(Henry Ossian Flipper, first black graduate of West Point)

The Story of Henry Ossian Flipper

A a little cold breeze lifted off the Hudson River that May morning and rippled up the already gelid spine of the young man upon the little ferry confine for West Point, New York. As it docked, he tugg at the strokes of his shirtsleeves and straightened his collar.

in what manner will I do?

Seventeen-year-old Henry Ossian Flipper of Atlanta, Georgia, had been asking himself that question at any time since the letter came April 17 1873 notifying him of his conditional appointment as a cadet of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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