COLONEL CHARLES YOUNG MEMORIAL
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Listing Details
Type of Memorial: Cemetery Stones
Year Dedicated: 1992
Access: Public
Wars Commemorated: INDIAN WARS, BORDER INCIDENT, SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR AND WORLD WAR I
Photograph By: CHRISTOPHER BUSTA-PECK
Submitted By: COURTESY OF HMdb.org
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.
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