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The 93rd Infantry Division was a "colored" segregated unit of the United States Army in World War I and World War II.However, in World War I only its four infantry regiments, two brigade headquarters, and a provisional division headquarters were organized, and the divisional and brigade headquarters were demobilized in May 1918.
92nd Division (Colored) ("Buffalo Soldiers") 24 October 1917 26 September 1918 Maj. Gen. Charles C. Ballou Maj. Gen. Charles Martin Brig. Gen. James B. Erwin: Meuse–Argonne: 93rd Division (Colored) ("Blue Helmets") (only infantry organized) 23 November 1917 8 April 1918 Brig. Gen. Roy Hoffman: Third Aisne Second Marne
The Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments in Philadelphia opened the Free Military Academy for Applicants for the Command of Colored Troops at the end of 1863. [13] For a time, Black soldiers received less pay than their white counterparts, but they and their supporters lobbied and eventually gained equal pay. [ 14 ]
Buffalo Soldiers at Camp Sherman [2]. Between June and September 1917, the United States Army constructed more than 1,300 buildings at the Camp Sherman site; over 40,000 soldiers passed through the facility during World War I. [1] Soldiers trained at Camp Sherman during World War I included the 95th Division, which was commanded by Brigadier General Mathew C. Smith. [3]
The organization of the regiment may have been instigated in some small part by Lt. Colonel Thomas J. Morgan, commander of the 14th U.S. Colored Troops. [4] In an 1893 reminiscence, John Encill MacGowan wrote that circa April 1864 at Knoxville he was the "senior officer in charge of organizing the First United States Colored Heavy Artillery."
United States Colored Troops skirmishing in Dutch Gap, Virginia, 1864 Taylor, young drummer boy for 78th Colored Troops Infantry, in rags Taylor, young drummer boy for 78th Colored Troops Infantry, in uniform with drum Union soldier in uniform with family-recently Identified as Sgt Samuel Smith of the 119th USCT and family [1]
The 27th United States Colored Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.The regiment was composed of African American enlisted men commanded by white officers and was authorized by the Bureau of Colored Troops which was created by the United States War Department on May 22, 1863.
Soldiers of the 25th Infantry, Fort Keogh, Montana, 1890. After the Civil War, the regular army was expanded to 45 infantry regiments from its wartime strength of 19. The act of Congress that authorized this included the creation of four regiments of "Colored Troops", racially segregated units with white officers and African American enlisted men.