BY WALTER OPINDE Born on 1st July, 1877, in Washington, D.C., towards the end of the Reconstruction period, Benjamin Oliver Davis became the first African-American to ever serve as a General in the U.S. Military. After his service as a volunteer during the Spanish-American War of 1898, Benjamin enlisted as a private in Troop I, […]
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