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

  • w = wounded
  • k = killed
  • m = missing

Forces

7th Military District: MG Andrew Jackson

General Staff

Division Brigade Regiments and Others

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[4]


     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[5]


     BG John Adair
  • Slaughter's Kentucky Militia: Ltc Gabriel Slaughter
  • Gray's Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc John Davis (detached to West Bank)
  • Mitchusson's Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc William Mitchusson

Right Wing[6]


     Col George T. Ross

 Louisiana Militia and Volunteers[7]


     MG Jacques Villeré
     Col Pierre de la Ronde
     Jean Michel Fortier[8]
U.S. Regular Army[9]
  • 7th U.S. Infantry: 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 directly

 West Bank[10]


     BG David B. Morgan
  • Naval Battalion: Commodore Daniel Patterson
  • Louisiana Militia Battalion: Maj Paul Arnaud
  • Gray's Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc John Davis
  • Additional Reinforcements from East Bank: Gen. Humbert
Reserves[11]
  • Mississippi Dragoons: Maj Thomas Hinds
  • 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: Harrison

References

  1. ↑ William Claiborne at KnowLouisiana.org retrieved 08 Feb 2017.
  2. ↑ Jean Lafitte National Historic Park Historic Resource Study
  3. ↑ Regimental Histories of Tennessee Units During the War of 1812
  4. ↑ Regimental Histories of Tennessee Units During the War of 1812
  5. ↑ Anderson C. Quisenberry, Kentucky in the War of 1812 (1915), pages 134-135.
  6. ↑ Jean Lafitte National Historic Park Historic Resource Study
  7. ↑ Tim Pickles, New Orleans 1815: Andrew Jackson Crushes the British (1994), page 37.
  8. ↑ Jean Michel Fortier at KnowLouisiana.org retrieved 08 Feb 2017.
  9. ↑ Pickles, p. 37.
  10. ↑ Pickles, p. 37.
  11. ↑ Pickles, p. 37.
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