The Military Career of Colonel Charles Young, U.S.A.

The Military Career of Colonel Charles Young, U.S.A. – by Brian G. Shellum

November 21, 2025, 7pm Eastern

Charles Young (1864–1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American national park superintendent, the first black U.S. military attaché, the first African American officer to command a Regular Army regiment, and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death.

November 21, 2025, 7pm Eastern
Zoom Virtual and at Fordham University near Lincoln Center, Room 109 in the lobby of MacMahon Hall, 155 West 60th Street, New York, New York

Brian G. Shellum
Retired Army officer, Gulf War Veteran, former army attaché in Bonn, sometime historian at the DIA, and author of “Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment: The Military Career of Charles Young,” “Buffalo Soldiers in California” and other works on the African American military experience.

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