American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 4th Division

Fourth Division - Regular Army

 * Nickname: Ivy 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
Regular Army

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Greene. N. C.

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: May 10, 1918-June 8, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: July 24, 1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * St. Mihiel
 * Meuse -Argonne.
 * Summaries of Operations 4th Division
 * 4th Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Fourth Division
7th Infantry Brigade 8th Infantry Brigade 4th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops  Trains 
 * 39th Infantry
 * 47th Infantry
 * 11th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 58th Infantry
 * 59th Infantry
 * 12th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 13th Field Artillery
 * 16th Field Artillery
 * 77th Field Artillery
 * 4th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 10th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 4th Engineers
 * 8th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 4th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 4th Ammunition Train
 * 4th Supply Train
 * 4th Engineer Train
 * 4th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 19,21,28,30

Unit Histories

 * Christian A. Bach and Henry Noble Hall. The Fourth Division: Its Services and achievements in the World War,... (1920)
 * R.B. Cole.The History of the 39th Infantry During the World War. (1919)

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

FamilySearch Resources

 * Willis Rowland Skillman. The A. E. F: who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia: G.W. Jacobs, 1920
 * American armies and battlefields in Europe : a history, guide, and reference book. Washington, D. C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1938
 * ‘’United States Army in the World War, 1917-1919.’’ 17 volumes. Washington: D.C.:  Center of Military History, United States Army, 1988. FHL 973 M2usa; Volumes 1-3 Digital images v. 1. Organization of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 2. Policy-forming documents of the American Expeditionary Forces -- v. 3. Training and use of American Units with the British and French
 * Robert Forrest Wilson; Benedict Crowell, ‘’Demobilization. Our Industrial and Military Demobilization After the Armistice.’’ New Haven, Connecticut: Yale university Press, 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

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

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