American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 81st Division

Eighty-First Division - National Army

 * Nickname: Wildcat/Stonewall 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

 * North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Puerto Rico

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp Jackson.

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: Aug. 15-Aug. 25, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: June 1, 1919.

Major Operations

 * Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces
 * Meuse-Argonne.
 * Summaries of Operations - 81st Division

Military Units attached to the Eighty-First Division
161st Infantry Brigade 162nd Infantry Brigade 156th  Field Artillery Brigade Divisional Troops Trains
 * 321st Infantry
 * 322nd Infantry
 * 317th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 323rd Infantry
 * 324th Infantry
 * 318th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 316th  Field Artillery
 * 317th Field Artillery
 * 318th Field Artillery
 * 306th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 316th  Machine Gun Battalion
 * 306th  Engineers
 * 306th  Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troop
 * 306th  Train HQ and Military Police
 * 306th Ammunition Train
 * 306th Supply Train
 * 306th Engineer Train
 * 306th Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 321-324

Soldier Naturalizations

 * 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 Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918
 * United States, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939
 * North Carolina, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919
 * Florida, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919

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

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