Bøger af Henry Ossian Flipper

He and his mother were the property of Rev. Reuben H. Lucky, a Methodist minister of that place. His father, Festus Flipper, by trade a shoemaker and carriage-trimmer, was owned by Ephraim G. Ponder, a successful and influential slave-dealer. In 1859 Mr. Ponder, having retired from business, returned to Georgia from Virginia with a number of mechanics, all slaves, and among whom was the father of young Flipper. He established a number of manufactories in Atlanta, then a growing inland town of Georgia. He married about this time a beautiful, accomplished, and wealthy lady. "Flipper," as he was generally called, had married before this, and had been taken back alone to his native Virginia to serve an apprenticeship under a carriage-trimmer

Henry Ossian Flipper was one of the nineteenth-century West's 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 Taylor's biographical essay, Flipper's account of his career at West Point, and an index.

After graduating as the first black from West Point in 1877, Henry O. Flipper was dismissed from the U. S. Army in 1882 following a financial scandal. This is Flipper's account of his service with the Tenth U. S. Cavalry in Texas and Oklahoma and the years that followed.