Cadet Life
At West Point
Descriptive Sketch of West Point
 By Benjamin J. Lossing, 1862 
367 pages, indexed, searchable
 
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Cadet Life
At West Point
Illustrated, 3rd Edition
By Col. Hugh T. Reed, 1911 
    313 pages
 
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Official Register of Officers and Cadets
June 1900
By U.S.M.A. Press and Bindery 
40 pages, searchable
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Biographical Register of Officers and Cadets
1890 - 1900
By U.S.M.A. Press and Bindery 
40 pages, searchable

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History and Topography of West Point
and the U.S. Military Academy
By Roswell Park, 1840
143 pages, searchable
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1947 Graduation Ceremony 

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The United States Military Academy at West Point (also known as USMA, West Point, or Army)
 is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located at West Point, New York. Established in
 1802, USMA is the oldest of the United States's five service academies. 
 
The military garrison at West Point was occupied in 1778 and played a key role in the Revolutionary War. 
The academy sits on scenic high ground overlooking the Hudson River, 50 miles (80 km) north of 
New York City.
 The entire central campus is a national landmark and home to scores of historic sites, buildings, and 
monuments. The majority of the campus's neogothic buildings are constructed from 
gray and black granite
 
 CONTENTS – Lossing 1862
Descriptive Sketch vii 
Prolegomenary 9 
CHAPTER I. Introductory 13 
CHAPTER II.My Father Smells Gunpowder . . . .21 
CHAPTER III. An Elementary Exercise In Wire-pulling . 88 
CHAPTER IV. In The Traces At Last 44 
CHAPTER V. We Are Examined — Unofficially . . .59 
CHAPTER VI. My Predecessor Imagines Himself An Orator 79 
CHAPTER VII. Examined — Officially 95 
CHAPTER VII. Camp, Tom, And Harry 107 
CHAPTER IX. We March On Guard — And Into Winter-quarters 132
CHAPTER X. The Beauties Of The Demerit System . . 150 
CHAPTER XI A Labyrinth Of Detail — For School-boys 
And School-masters 178 
CHAPTER XII. The January Examination — And Harry . .190 
CHAPTER XIII. The June Examination.—Tom, Terpsichore, And 
Cupid 208 
CHAPTER XIV. A Long Chapter — To Be Omitted . . . 233 
CHAPTER XV. A VERY SHORT CHAPTER .... .261 
CHAPTER XVI. Guard-duty, January And June. — Furlough 268 
CHAPTER XVII. Benny Haven's 295 
CHAPTER XVIII. Valedictory . . . . . . .319 
Appendix 325 
DESCRIPTIVE
 
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CONTENTS – REED, 1911
INDEX. 
I. The Appointment 13 
II. The Preparation 21 
III. The Candidate 27 
IV. The Plebe in Camp 65 
V. The Plebe in Barracks 87 
VI. The Yearling 125 
VII. The Furloughman 153 
VIII. The Graduate 179 
IX. The United States Military Academy 259 
X. The Appendix 287 
 
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