Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 372

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
THE THIRD BLACK GRADUATE OF WEST POINT (MILITARY--BUFFALO SOLDIERS.) YOUNG, CHARLES. Large Sepia toned cabinet card of Charles Young as a cadet at West Point. Surface slightly abraded with some fading. New York: Pach Brothers, circa 1889
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a rare photographic portrait of charles young (1864 - 1922). Young was the third African-American graduate of West Point, the first black U.S. national park superintendent, first black military attaché, first black to achieve the rank of colonel, and highest-ranking black officer in the United States Army until his death in 1922. Young graduated with his commission as a second lieutenant in 1889. He was first assigned to the Tenth U.S. Cavalry Regiment. Through a reassignment, he served first with the Ninth U.S. Cavalry Regiment, serving first in Nebraska. His subsequent service of 28 years was chiefly with black troops--the Ninth U.S. Cavalry and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry, nicknamed the "Buffalo Soldiers" since the Indian Wars. The armed services were racially segregated until 1948, when President Harry S. Truman integrated them by Executive order.