The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 391, Oct. 1887, U. of Illinois Press

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OCTOBER · 1887 ~ write to know if it would be possible for us to secure the services of Lieut. Alexander2 the colored man who recently graduated at West Point as professor of military tactics? Yours B. T. Washington ALS Service Record of John H. Alexander, 3279 Appt. Commission and Personal Branch 1887, Adjutant General's Office, RGg4 DNA. ~ Richard Coulter Drum ~ 18~5-~gog), born in Pennsylvania, enlisted in the Arrny in 1846 as a private. Promoted to first lieutenant during the Mexican War, Drum remained in the Army and became assistant adjutant general during the Civil War. He was made adjutant general in 1880. He retired from active service in ~ 889 with the rank of brigadier general. 2,Iohn Hanks Alexander entered the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1883. Surviving the discrimination of cadets and faculty, he graduated in 1887, thirty-second in a class of sixty-four. Commissioned a second lieutenant, he was one of three black officers of the Buffalo Soldiers, four black regiments assigned to the West. He served in Nebraska, Wyoming, and Utah before coming to Wilberforce University as professor of military science and tactics. He died in service in ~ 894. From NathaTie :Lord Boston, October lo 1887 Dear Sir: It gives me great pleasure to inform you that our Executive Committee empowered by the Board of Directors passed the following vote today. ''That this Association furnish the support of Miss Josie Calhoun, in Society Hill, Alabama, for 3 months at a salary of $ . a month. We shall be glad to have you hold the same relation to this school as to those in Cotton Valley and East Tallassee. Very truly, ~ Miss) Nathalie Lord Home Sec. Ctolored?] M fissions?] 2 ALS Con. 86 BTW Papers DLC. ~ Note on letter in hand other than BTW's: ''Wrote to Miss Calhoun.'' 2 Woman's Home Missionary Association. 39I