(MILITARY--SPANISH AMERICAN WAR.) YOUNG, COLONEL CHARLES. Group photograph of the officers of the Tenth Cavalry, with Colonel Charles Young, seated fifth from the left in the front row. Possibly shot at Camp Algers, Virginia. Silver print group photograph, 5-1/2 x 13-7/8 inches, on the original mount, the corners of which are worn; framed. Np, circa 1900
Colonel Charles Young was born in 1864. He graduated from West Point in 1889, and distinguished himself during the Indian Wars with the Tenth U.S. Cavalry and again in the Spanish American War. When WWI rolled around, Young stepped up to volunteer, though he was not on active duty. The war office turned him down on the basis of his age. To prove he was in perfect shape, on a clear June day in 1918 the retired Lt. Colonel Charles Young, made his way on horseback, 500 miles from Wilberforce, Ohio to the nation's capital, to show he was as always, fit for duty. He was reinstated, promoted to full Colonel but given an essentially a desk job at Camp Grant in Illinois. Young appealed the posting and the Army changed his post. Too old for active duty, but not too old to be sent to the fever ridden swamps of Liberia, where he died in 1922.
