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.


 * Willis Rowland Skillman. The A.E.F : who they were, what they did, how they did it. Philadelphia : G.W. Jacobs, ©1920
 * Hermine Scholz ; with accompanying chapter by Richard J. Sommers,  World War I manuscripts : the World War I survey Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania : U.S. Army Military History Institute, 1986

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

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 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

 * 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