Battle of New Orleans order of battle: American explained

The following units and commanders of the American armed forces under Andrew Jackson fought at the Battle of New Orleans during War of 1812. The British order of battle is shown separately.

Abbreviations used

Military rank

Other

Forces

7th Military District: MG Andrew Jackson

General Staff

Abner Lawson Duncan, John Randolph Grymes, Edward Livingston

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Left Wing[2]


    MG William Carroll

Carroll's Brigade[3]
    MG William Carroll
  • 1st Regiment West Tennessee Militia: Col William Metcalf
  • 2nd Regiment West Tennessee Militia: Col John Cocke
  • 3rd Regiment West Tennessee Militia: Col James Raulston
Coffee's Brigade
    BG John Coffee
  • 1st Regiment West Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen: Col Robert Dyer
  • 2nd Regiment West Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Gunmen: Col Thomas Williamson
  • Jugeant's Choctaws: Maj Pierre Jugeant
Adair's Brigade[4]
    BG John Adair
  • Slaughter's Kentucky Militia: Ltc Gabriel Slaughter[5] [6]
  • Gray's Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc John Davis (detached to West Bank)[7]
  • Mitchusson's Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc William Mitchusson[8]
Right Wing


    Col George T. Ross

Louisiana Militia and Volunteers[9]
    MG Jacques Villeré
    Col Pierre de la Ronde
    Jean Michel Fortier[10]

Maj Louis Daquin

  • City Rifles: Cpt Thomas Beale
  • Baratarians (gunners from Jean Lafitte's privateer crews)
  • Three regiments of Louisiana Militia on West Bank with General Morgan
U.S. Regular Army[12]

Maj Henry D. Peire

  • 44th U.S. Infantry: Col George T. Ross
  • U.S. Marines: Maj Daniel Carmick
  • Detachment, 1st U.S. Dragoons (there were no US Dragoons present at the Battle of New Orleans. Pickles is incorrect)
Reporting directlyWest Bank[13]
    BG David B. Morgan
  • Naval Battalion: Commodore Daniel Patterson
  • 2nd Louisiana Militia Brigade: Maj Paul Arnaud[14]
  • Gray's Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc John Davis
  • Additional Reinforcements (400 militiamen) from East Bank: Gen. Humbert[15] [16]
Reserves[17]
  • Mississippi Dragoons: Maj Thomas Hinds[18]
  • Detachment, 1st U.S. Dragoons: Ogden (Ogden was not a Dragoon officer and there were no US Dragoons at this battle. Ogden was a New Orleans resident that led a group of mounted local guides. Also missing from the order of battle by Pickles are the Feliciana Dragoons. These, along with the Mississippi Dragoons were the only "dragoons" at the battle)
  • Battalion, Kentucky Militia: Maj Reuben Harrison

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: William Claiborne . Feb 8, 2017.
  2. Greene, 2004, Chapter VI: Final Preparations
  3. Web site: Kanon . Tom . Regimental Histories of Tennessee Units During the War of 1812 . https://web.archive.org/web/20151228194943/http://sos.tn.gov/products/tsla/regimental-histories-tennessee-units-during-war-1812 . December 28, 2015 . Tennessee State Library and Archives.
  4. Quisenberry, 1915, pp.134-135.
  5. Smith, 1904, pp.187 to 195, Roll of Field and Staff, Slaughter's Regiment - APPENDIX II
  6. Roosevelt, p.237
  7. Smith, 1904, pp.196 to 202, Roll of Field and Staff, Davis's Regiment - APPENDIX III
  8. Smith, 1904, pp.179 to 186, Roll of Field and Staff, Mitchusson's Regiment - APPENDIX I
  9. Pickles, p. 37.
  10. Harrison, Thomas,THE BATTALIONS OF FREE MEN OF COLOR, page 113 of 198 within
  11. Hinsdale, Glenn L., American troops in the January 8 battle, page 5 of 198 within
  12. Pickles, p. 37.
  13. Pickles, p. 37.
  14. Hughes & Brodine (ed), pp.1014-1015
  15. Latour, pg.lxii
  16. Latour, pp.175-176
  17. Pickles, p. 37.
  18. Latour, pp.150-152

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