American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 86th Division

Eighty-Sixth Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Black Hawk Division
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931

The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft division:
 * Division Commanders
 * Division Composition: Infantry and Field Artillery Brigades, Divisional Trains; Trains: Ammunition, Supply, Engineer, Sanitary (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals); Attached: short term unit attachments; Detached: units detached from the division
 * Division Chronology- Assignment: Army, Corps, Date; Division Headquarters: Location, Date
 * Record of Events: Organization and Movement Overseas; Completion of Organization in France; Record of Events: Training and Operations; Record of Events: Return to the United States and Demobilization

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft) Chicago, Northern Illinois

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Grant, Illinois. 7.18.1917 - 4.19.1924

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Sixth Division
171st Infantry Brigade 172nd Infantry Brigade 161st Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 341st Infantry
 * 342nd Infantry
 * 332nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 343rd Infantry
 * 344th Infantry
 * 333rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 331st  Field Artillery
 * 332nd Field Artillery
 * 333rd Field Artillery
 * 311th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 331st  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 311th Engineers
 * 311th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 311th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 311th Ammunition Train
 * 311th Supply Train
 * 311h Engineer Train
 * 311th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 341-344)

Unit Histories

 * John G. Little, Jr. The Official History of the Eighty-Sixth Division. Chicago: States Publication Society, 1921
 * History of the 332d Machine Gun Battalion, 86th Division. 171st Brigade.

Soldier Naturalization

 * John J Newman. American naturalization processes and procedures, 1790-1985. pp. 15-16 will discuss naturalization of soldiers
 * Marian L. Smith. ‘’ ‘New Means and New Machinery:’ the problem of World War I soldier naturalization research.’’ NGS News Magazine (April/May/June,2005): 23-28

The following naturalizations occurred in the in the state which provided soldiers to this division. Some of the naturalizations may have taken place at the training camp and others elsewhere. Soldiers in these collections may have also served in other divisions.


 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921

Related FamilySearch Historical Record Collections

 * United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
 * United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940
 * United States, World War I American Expeditionary Forces Deaths, 1917-1919
 * United States, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939

Related FamilySearch Wiki Articles

 * Beginning United States World War I Research
 * United States World War I Infantry Divisions
 * World War I American Expeditionary Forces Table of Organization, 1917-1919
 * World War I United States Military Records, 1917 to 1918

Related Websites

 * The National WWI Museum and Memorial Kansas City, MO.
 * United States World War One Centennial Commission

Reference Sources

 * American Expeditionary Forces Distinctive Cloth Insignia Chart
 * U.S. Army Center of Military History Campaigns: World War I
 * U.S.Army Center of Military History World War I Divisions: Then and Now