Charles Noel Young letters to Ada Young   Save
Col. Charles Young Collection - NAM MSS 21
Description: Letters written to Ada Young, wife of Colonel Charles Young, by her son Charles Noel Young after the death of his father. 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_MSS21_B01F48_14_1
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; African American children; Correspondence; Military officers; World War I, 1914-1918; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
Places: France