While the 92nd Division as a whole, did not get into the heavy fighting until the last two weeks of the war, individual units had a taste of it earlier.  Service which the division as a whole did see, was some of the most severe of the war.  The Negroes of the country may well be proud of the organization, for its record was good all the way through and in the heavy fighting was characterized by great gallantry and efficiency.

One of the outstanding 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 to the fighting.  Of course there was fighting by some units of the division from the time early in the summer when they went into the trenches.