The Colored Cadet at West Point - Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, first graduate of color from the U. S. Military Academy by Henry Ossian Flipper
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To be kept free from cobwebs, and not to be injured by nails or otherwise. HEATING APPARATUS, SCREEN AND TOP. To be kept clean, and not to be scratched or defaced. These Regulations will be strictly obeyed and enforced. By order of LIEUT.-COLONEL UPTON, GEORGE L. TURNER, Cadet Lieut. and Adjutant. HEADQUARTERS, CORPS OF CADETS, West Point, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1873. At the end of the time specified every article was arranged and the cadet corporal returned to inspect. He walked deliberately to the clothes-press, and, informing me that every thing was arranged wrong, threw every article upon the floor, repeated his order, and withdrew. And thus three times in less than two hours did I arrange and he disarrange my effects. I was not troubled again by him till after supper, when he inspected again, merely opening the door, however, and looking in. He told me I could not go to sleep till "tattoo." Now tattoo, as he |
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