While Poe did not thrive at West Point, deliberately choosing disobedience in order to be court martialed and expelled on March 6, 1831, he made many friendships there that helped him support hos writing.
The “Murder at the Regatta” was a story of jealousy, passion, and some say even madness that shocked and fascinated the nation, and changed the very nature of how murder was seen and prosecuted in the United States.