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)
 * Columbia to the Rhine : being a brief history of the Fourth Engineers, and their trip from the Columbia River, in the State of Washington, U.S.A., to the Rhine River in Germany'' Wald, Germany : Printed by Westdeutsche Grossdrucherei G.M.B.H, 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

Naturalizations may have occurred in the in the state which provided soldiers to this division. Some of the naturalizations may have taken place at the training camp or other courts.
 * United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918
 * United States, World War I Correspondence Relating to Foreign Born Soldiers, 1917-1921 Training Camps

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.

FamilySearch Historical Records

 * 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