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Fort Davis National Historic SiteColumn of cavalry re-enactors passing in review.
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African Americans in the Frontier Army
   The Act of 1866 increased the size of the Regular Army, thus changing the course of military history by affording African Americans a permanent place in the Armed Forces of the United States.
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Second Lieutenant Henry O. Flipper    
   FIRST BLACK GRADUATE OF WEST POINT
       Born into slavery at Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856, Flipper became the first African American graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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First Fort Davis painting by Auther Lee.  

Did You Know?
Assistant Surgeon Albert J. Myer, who served at Fort Davis in 1855, developed a new military signaling system. Myer was promoted to major in 1860 and appointed Chief Signal Officer of the U.S. Army. He is known as the Father of the Signal Corps.

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