Brian G Shellum: 2 books
Black Officer in a Buffalo Soldier Regiment
The Military Career of Charles Young
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
An unheralded military hero, Charles Young (1864–1922) was the third black graduate of West Point, the first African American national park superintendent, the first black U.S. military attaché, the first African American officer to command a Regular Army regiment, and the highest-ranking black...
African American Officers in Liberia
A Pestiferous Rotation, 1910–1942
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
African American Officers in Liberia tells the story of seventeen African American officers who trained, reorganized, and commanded the Liberian Frontier Force from 1910 to 1942. In this West African country founded by freed black American slaves, African American officers performed their duties...