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Charles Young
Description: Letters in English and French from Charles Noel "Tonton" Young to his grandparents. Charles Noel Young was the son of Colonel Charles Young, the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, 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_B01F28_01
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; African American children; Correspondence; Military officers; World War I, 1914-1918; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
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