ding features of the division was the fact that it had
about six hundred Negro commissioned officers. Its rank and file of
course, was composed exclusively of Negro soldiers. The fine record of
the division must forever set at rest any doubts concerning the ability
of Negro officers, and any questions about Negro soldiers following and
fighting under them. It was a splendid record all the way through, and
Negro officers rendered excellent service at all times and under the
most trying circumstances. Many of these officers, be it understood,
were entirely new to military life. Some had seen service in the
National Guard and some had come up from the ranks of the Regular Army,
but the majority of them were men taken from civilian life and trained
and graduated from the officer's training camps at Fort Des Moines, Camp
Taylor, Camp Hancock and Camp Pike. A few received commissions from the
officers' training schools in France.

The 92nd Division was composed of the 183rd Infantry Brigade, consisting
of the 365th and 366th Infantry Regiments and the 350th Machine Gun
Battalion; the 184th Infantry Brigade, composed of the 367th and 368th
Infantry Regiments and the 351st Machine Gun Battalion; the 167th
Artillery Brigade consisting of the 349th, 350th and 351st Artillery
Regiments; and the 349th Machine Gun Battalion, the 317th Trench Mortar
Battalion, the 317th Engineers' Regiment, the 317th Engineers' Train,
the 317th Ammunition Train, the 317th Supply Train, the 317th Train
Headquarters, the 92nd Military Police Company; and the Sanitary Train,
comprising the 365th, 366th 367th and 368th Field Hospital and Ambulance
Companies.

Briefly summarized, the operations of the 92nd Division may be stated
as follows: Arrived in France the summer of 1918. After the usual period
of intensive training in the back areas it was divided into several
groups for training alongside the French in front line trenches.

In August they took over a sector in the St. Die region near the
Lorraine border. September 2nd they repulsed an enemy raid at
LaFontenelle. On September 26th the division was a reserve of the First
Army Corps in the first phase of the Meuse-Argonne offensive.

On October 10th they moved to the Marbache sector in the vicinity of
Pont a Mousson. November 10th they advanced, reaching Bois Frehaut and
Bois Cheminot, capturing 710 prisoners. These positions were being
consolidated on November 11th when the armistice put an end t