Brigadier General by the Headquarters Department of the Army on January 19, 2022.

Colonel Charles Young, the highest ranking African-American soldier at the time of his death on January 8, 1922, was posthumously promoted to the rank of

Brigadier General by the Headquarters Department of the Army on January 19, 2022.

Colonel Charles Young graduated from West Point in 1889. A Buffalo Soldier serving with the 9th and 10th Cavalry and the 25th Infantry, Young eventually became the first African American to achieve the rank of colonel in the United States Army. Charles Young was born to ex-slaves in Mays Lick, Kentucky in 1864. In 1889 he became the third African American to graduate from the Academy.