THE NEGRO OFFICER OF HIGHEST RANK 



Only three Negroes have ever Rraduated from West Point, and only one of them is now in 

 the Army. He is Major Charles B. Young of the Tenth Cavalry. Major Young, who is 

 'now 55 years old, entered the military academy in 1884 and has served in various cavalry 

 and infantry regiments. He reached his i)resent rank in 1912. In general Negro regiments 

 in the United States have been officered by whites, but in the Spanish-American war a number 

 of volunteer Negro officers were commissioned, and after the war two Negro regiments, the 

 48th and 49th U. S. Infantry, were enlisted for service in the Philippines, captains and heuten- 

 ants being Negroes. At the j)resent time a con.sidcrable number of Negro officers as well as 

 enlisted men are being (rained. Photograjili h<>m The Crisis. (Fig. 2.) 



