<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> On the eve of the Civil War differing loyalties sent some West Pointers north, others south, but their academy friendship survived the conflict.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> One morning Cadet Johnson Whittaker was found battered and bleeding, trussed to his barracks bed. Who had done it, and why?</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The young poet became a legendary plebe in the few painful months he spent at West Point</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">The United States Military Academy turns 200 this year. West Point has grown with the nation—and, more than once, saved it.</span></p>