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Colonel Charles Young: Ohio’s Buffalo Soldier

October 27, 20261 min readBy PinGallery
Colonel Charles Young
Photo: Bain, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Charles Young was raised in Ripley, Ohio, and became the third Black graduate of West Point and the first Black colonel in the U.S. Army.

He led Buffalo Soldiers, served as acting superintendent of Sequoia and General Grant national parks and taught at Wilberforce University. His Wilberforce home is now a national monument.

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