TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shellum,Brian
TI  - Black officer in a Buffalo Soldier regiment: the military career of Charles Young 
SN  - 9780803213852
AV  - E185.97.Y63 S54 2010
U1  - 355/.0092B 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Young, Charles,
KW  - United States
KW  - Army
KW  - Officers
KW  - Biography
KW  - African American troops
KW  - fast
KW  - African American soldiers
KW  - Armed Forces
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "A Bison original"--Page 4 of cover; Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-351) and index; Awaiting orders -- First posting to Fort Robinson -- New start at Fort Duchesne -- Military instructor at Wilberforce -- Volunteer officer in the Spanish-American War -- Return to Fort Duchesne -- Fighting Guerillas in the Philippines -- Troop commander in
N2  - "An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864-1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American n; Brian G. Shellum describes how, during his remarkable army career, Young was shuffled among the few assignments deemed suitable for a black officer in a white man's army - the Buffalo Soldier regiments, an African American college, and diplomatic posts in black republics such as Liberia. Nonetheless, he used his experience to establish himself as an exceptional cavalry officer. He was a colonel on the eve of the United States' entry into World War I, when serious medical problems and racial intolerance denied him command and ended his career. Shellum's book seeks to restore a hero to the ranks of military history; at the same time, it informs our understanding of the role of race in the history of the American military."--Pub. desc
ER  -