New Orleans American order of battle

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

MG = Major General
BG = Brigadier General
Col = Colonel
Ltc = Lieutenant Colonel
Maj = Major
Cpt = Captain
Lt = 1st Lieutenant

Other

w = wounded
k = killed
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: Arsene Lacarriere Latour

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]	Several regiments/divisions of Louisiana Militia Battalion of Orleans (city): Maj Jean Baptiste Plauché Lacoste's Free Men of Color: Maj Pierre Lacoste Daquin's Free Men of Color: Maj Louis Daquin City Rifles: Cpt Thomas Beale Baratarians (gunners from Jean Lafitte's privateer crews)
Right Wing[6] Col George T. Ross	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
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
Reporting directly	Reserves[11]	Mississippi Dragoons: Maj Thomas Hinds Detachment, 1st U.S. Dragoons: Ogden Battalion, Kentucky Militia: Harrison

References

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

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[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.