American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 90th Division

Ninetieth Division - National Army

 * Nickname:Alamo 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) Texas and Oklahoma

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Travis, Texas. 6.18.1917-12.13.1922
 * E.B. Johns. Camp Travis and its part in the World War. New York, New York : E.B. Johns, 1919

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: June 23, 1918; July 17. 1918
 * Date sailed for Home: May 28, 1919

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Beligum and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920 pp.36-37
 * Summaries of Operations - 90th Division
 * St. Mihiel
 * Muese-Argonne

Military Units attached to the Ninetieth Division
 179th Infantry Brigade 180th Infantry Brigade 166th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 357th Infantry
 * 358th Infantry
 * 344th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 359th Infantry
 * 360th Infantry
 * 345th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 343rd Field Artillery
 * 344th Field Artillery
 * 345th Field Artillery
 * 315th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 343rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 315th Engineers
 * 315th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 315th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 315th Ammunition Train
 * 315th Supply Train
 * 315th Engineer Train
 * 315th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 357-360)

Unit Histories

 * Lonnie J. White. The 90th Division in World War I: the Texas-Oklahoma draft division in the great war. Manhattan,Kansas.Sunflower University Press, 1996
 * Harold M. Hyman. A short and photographic record of the 360th Infantry,Texas Brigade. Colonel C. H. Conrad,commanding. San Antonio,Texas:San Antonio Printing Co., 1918

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

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