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Born in New York capital, Albany, King was the son of Civil War general Rufus King, grandson of Columbia University president Charles King, and great grandson of Rufus King, who was one of the signers of the United States Constitution on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia.
- A Seventh Generation Soldier
- Buffalo Bill’s Buddy
- Boundless Energy and Relentless Drive
- An Accurate Depiction of Life at Frontier Army Posts
You could make a good living as a writer in the early 1900s: King must have done pretty well. He wrote over sixty books. Cadet Days: a story of West Point; An Army Wife; Trumpeter Fred; A War-time Wooing:romanticized versions of army life that may have actually made young boys of the era take up “The business of arms.” It’s hard to know now. Charle...
It was during this period that King became friends with Buffalo Bill Cody, the unit’s scout. King was shot in the arm during a battle with the Apache in 1874; the shattered bone never healed properly. Forced out of active cavalry service by this injury in 1879, this also resulted in his first book, Campaigning with Crook, which has been reprinted m...
A man of boundless energy and relentless drive, King, historian Don Russell wrote, “Was the only soldier in American history to wear campaign medals from five wars – the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and World War I – in addition to a Silver Star awarded after an Apache fight in 1874. King was credited with seventy a...
King’s novels reveal a bright man and a skilled writer. He understood dialogue and character development; his novels put you inside the nineteenth century military with its politics, character assassinations, and occasional pleasures in the form of dances and singing around the piano: the kind of amusements people took for themselves before mass me...
GENERAL CHARLES KING. (October 12, 1844: Albany, NY ~ March 17, 1933: Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Soldier King, who was credited with seventy years of active military service, was the only soldier in American history to serve in five American wars: The Civil War, Indian Wars, Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection and World War I. Novelist.
Brig. Gen. Charles H. King is Vice Commander, Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. General King was commissioned as a distinguished graduate of the Clemson University ROTC program.
King was the son of Civil War general Rufus King, grandson of Columbia University president Charles King, and great grandson of Rufus King, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. He graduated from West Point in 1866 and served in the Army during the Indian Wars under George Crook.
- Albany, New York
- October 12, 1844
- New York
- March 17, 1933
Jun 4, 2024 · 4 June 2024. By Jennifer Clarke, BBC News. Millie Pilkington/Buckingham Palace/PA. Buckingham Palace released a picture of the King and Queen to mark his return to public engagements. King...
Sep 6, 2007 · Charles King, one of America's most illustrious soldiers, was born in New York and came to Milwaukee in 1845. His father was Rufus King, editor and publisher of the Milwaukee Sentinel and first commander of the famed Civil War Iron Brigade.
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