American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 86th Division

Eighty-Sixth Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Black Hawk 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
 * 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) Chicago, Northern Illinois

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Grant, Illinois. 7.18.1917 - 4.19.1924

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces

Military Units attached to the Eighty-Sixth Division
171st Infantry Brigade 172nd Infantry Brigade 161st Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 341st Infantry
 * 342nd Infantry
 * 332nd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 343rd Infantry
 * 344th Infantry
 * 333rd Machine Gun Battalion
 * 331st  Field Artillery
 * 332nd Field Artillery
 * 333rd Field Artillery
 * 311th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 331st  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 311th Engineers
 * 311th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 311th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 311th Ammunition Train
 * 311th Supply Train
 * 311h Engineer Train
 * 311th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 341-344)

Unit Histories

 * John G. Little, Jr. The Official History of the Eighty-Sixth Division. Chicago: States Publication Society, 1921
 * History of the 332d Machine Gun Battalion, 86th Division. 171st Brigade.

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

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