American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 92nd Division

Ninety-Second Division - National Army
The volume will include the following for each Regular Army (RA), National Guard (NG) and National Army (NA) or Draft division:
 * Nickname: Buffalo Division
 * Division Organized: October 1917
 * Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931
 * 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


 * Complete History of the Colored Soldiers in the World War... New York City: Bennett & Churchill, 1919
 * Emmett J. Scott.  The American Negro in the World War. S.l.: E.J. Scott, 1919. FamiySearch Digital Book
 * Chapter XII. Citations and Awards, 92nd Division pp. 173-189
 * Chapter XIII. The Story of "The Buffaloes" 367th Infantry Regiment pp. 190-198
 * Chapter XIV. "Record of the "The Old Fifteenth" 369th United States Infantry. pp. 197-213.

Troops Drawn

 * Selective Service (Draft) Various states

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camps Funston. Grant. Dodge. Upton, Meade. Dix (Colored Troops)

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: First Unit June 19, 1918; Last Unit:July 18, 1918
 * Date of Arrival in the U.S. February 17, 1919 in New York

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * St. Mihiel (317th F, Signal Bn)
 * Meuse-Argonne
 * Summaries of Operations - 92nd Division
 * 92nd Division - Maps

Military Units attached to the Ninety-Second Division
 183rd Infantry Brigade 184th Infantry Brigade 167th Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 365th Infantry
 * 366th Infantry
 * 350th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 367th Infantry
 * 368th Infantry
 * 351st Machine Gun Battalion
 * 349th Field Artillery
 * 350th Field Artillery
 * 351st Field Artillery
 * 317th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 349th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 317th Engineers
 * 325th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 317th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 317th Ammunition Train
 * 317th Supply Train
 * 317th Engineer Train
 * 317th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals  365-368)

Unit Histories

 * 92nd Division, Summary of Operations in the World War. American Battle monuments Commission. Washington: Government Printing Office,1923.
 * Warner Anthony Ross. My Colored Battalion. Chicago: Warner A Ross, Publisher, 1920 365th Infantry, 2nd Battalion
 * New York Union League Club. The presentation of colors to the 367th regiment of infantry, Colonel James A. Moss commanding. New York, Printed by S. L. Parsons, & 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

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
 * George S. Robb Centre for the Study of the Great War Park University

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