COLONEL CHARLES YOUNG MEMORIAL
COLONEL CHARLES YOUNG WAS THE THIRD BLACK GRADUATE OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY, CLASS OF 1889. COLONEL YOUNG AS A "BUFFALO SOLDIER" WAS PRESENT ON THE EARLY WESTWARD FRONTIER. HE LEAD THE 2ND SQUADRON (10TH)CALVARY REGIMENT IN THE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION AGAINST PANCHO VILLA IN MEXICO, SERVED IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AND THE PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION. ON JUNE 22, 1917 CHARLES YOUNG BECAME THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN TO REACH THE RANK OF COLONEL.
Listing Details
- Public
- INDIAN WARS, BORDER INCIDENT, SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AND WORLD WAR I
- Cemetery Stones
- 1992
- PROSPECT ROAD AND PROSPECT AVENUE
- 44103
- CHRISTOPHER BUSTA-PECK
- COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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