Battle of New Orleans order of battle: American

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.

Active1814–1815

Country

United States of America

BranchUnited States Army

TypeArmy

Quick facts United States Forces, Louisiana, Active ...

United States Forces, Louisiana
Andrew Jackson surrounded by his troops at the Battle of New Orleans, 1815
Active	1814–1815
Country	United States of America
Branch	United States Army
Type	Army
Size	4,698 men on the Left Bank >750 men on the Right Bank
Engagements	Battle of New Orleans
Commanders
Commander-in-chief (1 December 1814 – 27 January 1815)	Major General Andrew Jackson

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Abbreviations used

Military rank

MG = Major General
BG = Brigadier General
Col = Colonel
Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
Maj = Major
Cpt = Captain

Other

k = killed
w = wounded
m = missing

Forces

7th Military District: MG Andrew Jackson

General Staff

Advisers to General Jackson: Brigadier General Jean Joseph Amable Humbert,
Governor William C. C. Claiborne^[1]
Aides-de-camp: Abner Lawson Duncan, John Randolph Grymes, Edward Livingston
Aide-de-camp and judge advocate, Major Auguste Davezac
Volunteer chief of engineers: Arsène Lacarrière-Latour

More information Division, Brigade ...

Division	Brigade	Regiments and Others	Strength	k^[a]	w^[a]	m^[a]
Left Wing^[3] MG William Carroll	Carroll's Brigade^[4] 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	1100 aggregated^[b]	4	8	0
	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	813 aggregated Tennesseans^[b]	1	0	0
	Adair's Brigade^[7] BG John Adair	Slaughter's Kentucky Militia: Ltc Gabriel Slaughter^[8]^[5] Gray's Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc John Davis (detached to West Bank)^[9] Mitchusson's Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc William Mitchusson^[10]	526^[b] elsewhere 462^[b]^[c]	1	12	0
Right Wing^[3] Col George T. Ross	Louisiana Militia and Volunteers^[11] MG Jacques Villeré Col Pierre de la Ronde Jean Michel Fortier^[12]	Battalion of Orleans (city): Maj Jean Baptiste Plauché Lacoste's Free Men of Color: Maj Pierre Lacoste^[13] Daquin's Free Men of Color: 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^[14]	742 aggregate^[b]	1	15	0
Right Wing^[3] Col George T. Ross	U.S. Regular Army^[11]	7th U.S. Infantry: Maj Henry D. Peire 44th U.S. Infantry: Col George T. Ross U.S. Marines: Maj Daniel Carmick	671 aggregate^[b]^[d]	2	1	0
	Ltc William MacRea^[16]	Gunners manning the artillery pieces	154 aggregate^[b]	3	1	0
Reporting directly	Reserves^[11]	Mississippi Dragoons: Maj Thomas Hinds^[17] Captain Ogden's company of cavalry and a detachment of the Attakapas dragoons Captain Chaveau's company of horse volunteers	150 50 30, subtotaling 230 cavalry^[b]	0	0	0
	Reserves^[11]	Battalion, Kentucky Militia: Maj Reuben Harrison	305^[c]	0	0	0
	West Bank^[11] BG David B. Morgan	Naval contingent: Commodore Daniel Patterson	30^[e]^[f]	0	0	0
		2nd Louisiana Militia Brigade: Maj Paul Arnaud^[14]	640^[g]	1	4	15
		Gray's Kentucky Militia Regiment: Ltc John Davis (detached to West Bank from Adair)^[14]	250 & 150^[h]	0	0	4
		Additional Reinforcements (400 militiamen) from East Bank: Gen. Humbert^[20]^[21]	400 reinforcements^[21]	0	0	0

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More information Location, Formation ...

Location	Formation	Constituent vessels	Complements
In the river	Vessels of the Naval Station at New Orleans, reporting to Commodore Daniel Patterson^[22]^[23]	USS Louisiana, 8 x 24 pdr guns on the port side, 8 x 24 pdr guns on the starboard side	>120 crew^[i]
		USS Carolina (lost on December 27, 1814),^[25] 3 x 9 pdr guns, 12 x 12 pdr guns	>100 crew ^[26]
		2 Jeffersonian gunboats^[27] ^[28]	2 crews totaling 52 men^[j]

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Notes

[a]
Reproducing Adjutant General Robert Butler's casualty report to Brigadier General Parker dated January 16, 1815. 13 dead, 39 wounded, 19 missing or captured; total: 71.^[2]
[b]
A grand total of 4,698 men on the Left Bank^[5]^[6]
[c]
Mitchusson on the Left Bank alternatively had a strength of not 462, but 746 officers and enlisted men, according to Quisenberry. From within this, Maj Reuben Harrison was detached. He had a strength of 305 men, according to Smith (1904) p.74 and Quisenberry (1915) p.140, or 306 according to Buell (1904).
[d]
On the Left Bank 'the Seventh regular infantry, 430 strong... and 240 regulars of the Forty-fourth regiment'^[15]
[e]
Patterson states this figure of 30 men, in his correspondence about the fighting on the Right Bank.^[18] The pseudo "Naval Battalion" of 106 men is an invention of Buell, which does not appear in other sources. The terminology in use for a body of seamen on shore of the Royal Navy was a "Naval Brigade", which may have been the inspiration for Buell.
[f]
"Some myths are manufactured by intent, and no one more assiduously invented material to cement the "western hunter" marksmanship myth at New Orleans than the industrious Augustus Caesar Buell, who actually created forgeries from the 1890s or earlier until his death in 1904... Buell was particularly anxious to bolster the prevailing myth that deadly American rifle marksmanship by Kentuckians and Tennesseans won the battle.... Buell's forgeries as presented in his Jackson biography were unfortunately accepted at face value by some subsequent historians. Stanley C Arthur, admittedly not a trained historian... used much of Buell's fiction in [his book] "New Orleans"."^[19]
[g]
Louis Valentin Foelckel's letter has a total strength of 640 Louisiana militiamen^[14] on the Right Bank, versus 546 Louisiana militiamen from Roosevelt.^[5]
[h]
Louis Valentin Foelckel's letter has LTC John Davis with 400 Kentucky militiamen on the Right Bank.^[14] Of these, Roosevelt has 180 with arms, another 70 with arms provided by the Naval Arsenal, for a "rifle" strength of 250, alongside 150 unarmed men.^[5]
[i]
The USS Yorktown was a 16-gun sloop-of-war of the United States Navy. This similar vessel had a complement of 150 crewmen^[24]
[j]
"It may be best to consider the large ones as having 41, and the small 26 men, which were the complements of the American gunboats of the same sizes."^[29]

Citations

[1]
"William Claiborne". Retrieved Feb 8, 2017.
[2]
Latour 1999, pp. 242–243.
[3]
Greene, 2004, Chapter VI: Final Preparations
[4]
Kanon, Tom. "Regimental Histories of Tennessee Units During the War of 1812". Tennessee State Library and Archives. Archived from the original on December 28, 2015.
[5]
Roosevelt, p.223
[6]
O'Connor 1817, p. 291.
[7]
Quisenberry, 1915, pp.134-135.
[8]
Smith, 1904, pp.187 to 195, Roll of Field and Staff, Slaughter's Regiment - APPENDIX II
[9]
Smith, 1904, pp.196 to 202, Roll of Field and Staff, Davis's Regiment - APPENDIX III
[10]
Smith, 1904, pp.179 to 186, Roll of Field and Staff, Mitchusson's Regiment - APPENDIX I
[11]
Pickles, p. 37.
[12]
Harrison, Thomas,THE BATTALIONS OF FREE MEN OF COLOR, page 113 of 198 within Troop Roster
[13]
Hinsdale, Glenn L., American troops in the January 8 battle, page 5 of 198 within Troop Roster
[14]
Hughes & Brodine (ed), pp.1014-1015
[15]
Roosevelt 1900, p. 225.
[16]
Greene 2009, pp. 81, 188–195.
[17]
Latour, pp.106-107
[18]
Hughes & Brodine (ed), pp.1015-1019
[19]
Davis 2019, pp. 480–481.
[20]
Latour, pg.lxii
[21]
Latour, pp.120-121
[22]
Dudley 2015, pp. 38–45.
[23]
Smith 2008, p. 91.
[24]
"USS Yorktown". Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. Navy Department, Naval History and Heritage Command. 2004. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
[25]
Roosevelt 1900, p. 241.
[26]
"Carolina". DANFS.
[27]
Hughes & Brodine 2023, p. 980.
[28]
Reilly 1974, p. 260.
[29]
Roosevelt 1900, p. 114.

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