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Commemorating Black History Month
Commemorating Black History Month
Commemorating Black History Month
The first Black officer to serve with the 10th Cavalry was Henry Ossian Flipper, who was also the first Black man to graduate from West Point. Flipper, like many of the graduates, studied engineering.
Flipper had been born into slavery to enslaved parents in Thomasville, Georgia, in 1856, becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York on June 15, 1877.
As an engineer with the 10th Cavalry at Fort Sill, Flipper supervised engineering building roads and installing telegraph lines. A drainage system he designed is listed as a National Historic Landmark. The “Flipper’s Ditch” drained pools of standing water from which mosquitos had preyed on the soldiers at the fort.
Accused of embezzlement, he was acquitted but still dishonorably discharged, though innocent. The Army would later change this to honorable, and President Clinton pardoned him.
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