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

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

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