Major General Tasker H. Bliss letter to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young, July 10,   Save
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
Description: Letter from Major General and Acting Chief of Staff Tasker H. Bliss to Lieutenant Colonel Charles Young ordering him to leave Letterman General Hospital and report to the adjutant general of Ohio in Columbus, Ohio for duty. 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_B01F03_06
Subjects: African American men; World War I, 1914-1918; African American soldiers; Correspondence; Military officers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
Places: National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center