Fort Des Moines Colored Officers Training, 1917.

ID: 158 ~ Source: Iowa Oral History Project. Digital source: Internet Archive ~ Creator: Des Moines Public Library ~ Date: 1975-02-20

This file appears in: Fort Des Moines: Chronology

Interview with James Mitchell and James Morris regarding their officer training experiences at Fort Des Moines during World War I.

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Wartime

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audio

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Sound

This file appears in: Fort Des Moines: Chronology

Fort Des Moines: Chronology

By Fort Des Moines Museum & Education Center

1901 Construction begins on the 400-acre base Fort Des Moines on Des Moines’ South Side.1903-1904 Two companies of the all-black U.S. Army 25th Infantry surprise Des Moines’ local citizens by arriving instead of white cavalry. The 25th had been…