Black Cadet in a White Bastion: Charles Young at West Point

by Brian G . Shellum (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $25.44

  Born in slavery, Charles Young was the third black graduate of West Point, the first black US military attache and the highest-ranking black officer in the Regular Army until his death. This biography of Young's years at West Point chronicles the challenges that Young faced, and provides a window into life at West Point in the 1880s.