Description: Portrait of Charles Noel Young, the son of Colonel Charles Young. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F84_H
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: Portrait of Charles Noel "Tonton" Young, the son of Colonel Charles Young. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F84_I
Subjects: African American men; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: Photograph of Charles Jr., the son of Charles Young who was also called "Tonton," standing with an unidentified boy. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B04F05_I
Subjects: African American men; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: Portrait of Eugena Ballard, wife of Lieutenant Wilson Ballard, who served in the 9th Battalion Ohio Volunteer Infantry with Charles Young. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B04F08_B
Subjects: African American women; 9th Battalion Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.); African American soldiers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.; Military officers
 

Description: Photograph of the son of Asa D. C. Barnes, taken June 27, 1911, that was given to Colonel Charles Young. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F28_02
Subjects: African American men; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: Photograph of Colonel Charles Young and other unidentified people in Liberia, where he was stationed as a military attache. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F42
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Military officers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
Places: Liberia (Africa)
 

Description: Photograph of automobiles in front of Charles Young's home in Wilberforce, Ohio. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F71_03
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Military officers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Charles Young and unidentified man sitting on the steps of the Young home in Wilberforce, Ohio. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F71_06
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Military officers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
Places: Wilberforce (Ohio)
 

Description: Sketches drawn by Charles Young as part of his West Point portfolio. Contained in this portion of the portfolio are "Building elevation," “Exercise Nov. 23, 1887,” “Hues,” “Exercise I,” “Exercise II,” “Exercise III,” “Exercise IV,” “Exercise V,” “Dead load exercise” and “Cadet Young exercise." Young graduated from West Point, only the third African American to do so at the time, in 1889. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: African American soldiers; Artists; West Point (Military academy); Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
Places: West Point (New York)
 

Description: Photograph of Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young and his wife Ada Young with unidentified people. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B04F05_J
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Military officers; World War I, 1914-1918; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: Photograph of Colonel Charles Young in uniform. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F50_01
Subjects: African American men; African American soldiers; Military officers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: Photograph of Colonel Charles Young. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS3_B02F54_2
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Military officers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.