American Expeditionary Forces, Infantry, 29th Division

Twenty-Ninth Division - National Guard
The volume will include the following for each Regular Army(RA), National Guard(NG) and National Army(NA) or Draft division:
 * Nickname: Blue and Gray Division
 * 29th Division Insignia
 * Army War College (U.S.). Historical Section. Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War. American Expeditionary Forces. Division. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1931 Pages 21-41 (images 28-48).
 * 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

Training Camp in the United States

 * Camp McClellan. Alabama. N. G. troops of D.C., N.J., MD, and VA.

Overseas Service

 * Date landed in France: June 8, 1918-July 22, 1918.
 * Date sailed for home: May 6, 1919.

Major Operations

 * ''Battle Participation of Organizations of the American Expeditionary Forces in France, Belgium and Italy, 1917-1918. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1920. pp.18-19
 * Major Operations: Meuse-Argonne.

Military Units attached to the Twenty-Ninth Division
 57th Infantry Brigade   58th Infantry Brigade   54th Field Artillery Brigade   Divisional Troops   Trains 
 * 113th Infantry
 * 114th Infantry
 * 111th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 115th Infantry
 * 116th Infantry
 * 112th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 110th Field Artillery
 * 111th Field Artillery
 * 112th Field Artillery
 * 104th Trench Mortar Battery
 * 110th Machine Gun Battalion
 * 104th Engineers
 * 104th Field Signal Battalion
 * HQ Troops
 * 104th Train HQ and Military Police
 * 104th Ammunition Train
 * 104th Supply Train
 * 104th  Engineer Train
 * 104th   Sanitary Train (Ambulance Companies and Field Hospitals 113-116

Unit Histories

 * John A. Cutchins. History of the Twenty-Ninth Division, Blue and Gray, 1917-1919... Philadelphia:Twenty-Ninth Division Historical Committee, 1921.
 * Raymond S. Tompkins.  Maryland Fighters in the Great War. Baltimore: Thomas & Evans Printing Co., 1919. History of the 115th Infantry.
 * F.C. Reynolds. 115th Infantry, U.S.A., in the World War Baltimore : Read-Taylor Co. Printers, ©1920.

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

The following naturalizations occurred in the U.S. District Courts in the states 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 Coverage Table - National Archives
 * United States District Court. Military petitions, for Birmingham, Alabama, 1918-1924
 * United States District Court. Military petitions, for Montgomery, Alabama, 1918

Related Family History Library Holdings

 * Maryland War Records Commission. Maryland in the World War, 1917-1919 : military and naval service records. Baltimore : Maryland War Records Commission, c1933 volume 2. J-Z. Note: 29th Division Volume 1. pp 103-126
 * Arthur Kyle Davis, editor. Virginia military organizations in the World War : with supplement of distinguished service. Richmond, Virginia : Virginia War History Commission, 1927, c1927 Virginia Units in the 29th Division pp 1-206

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
 * United States Index to Naturalizations of World War I Soldiers, 1918

State Collections
 * Alabama, World War I Service Cards, 1917-1919

Related FamilySearch Wiki Articles

 * Beginning United States World War I Research
 * World War I American Expeditionary Forces Table of Organization, 1917-1919
 * World War I United States Military Records, 1917 to 1918
 * United States World War I Infantry Divisions

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