Lives & Memoirs
Colored Cadet at West Point
Henry Ossian Flipper
2026
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For four years at West Point nobody spoke to him except on duty, and he graduated regardless. Flipper was the first Black man to take a commission out of the academy, and his account of the silence, the drill and the daily arithmetic of being twice as correct as everyone around him is written without a trace of self-pity, which makes it land harder.
Inside this audiobook
21 chapters
- 1Preface & Chapter I22m
- 2Chapter II, Communications, Etc.33m
- 3Chapter III, Reporting42m
- 4Chapter IV, Cant Terms, etc.17m
- 5Chapter V, Plebe Camp29m
- 6Chapter VI, Studies, Etc.24m
- 7Chapter VII, Yearling Camp11m
- 8Chapter VIII, First-Class Camp10m
- 9Chapter IX, Our Future Heroes. The West Point Cadets' Vacation.6m
- 10Chapter X (part 1), Treatment32m
- 11Chapter X (part 2), Treatment34m
- 12Chapter X (part 3), Treatment26m
- 13Chapter XI, Resume40m
- 14Chapter XII, Pleasures And Privileges37m
- 15Chapter XIII, Furlough8m
- 16Chapter XIV, Incident, Humor, Etc.52m
- 17Chapter XV (part 1), Graduation--In The Army39m
- 18Chapter XV (part 2)29m
- 19Chapter XV (part 3)54m
- 20Chapter XVII (part 1)54m
- 21Chapter XVII (part 2)33m
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