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.
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
| Division | Brigade | Regiments and Others | Strength | k[a] | w[a] | m[a] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Left Wing[3] |
Carroll's Brigade[4]
|
|
1100 aggregated[b] |
4 | 8 | |
| Coffee's Brigade[4]
|
|
813 aggregated Tennesseans[b] |
1 | |||
| Adair's Brigade[7]
|
|
1 | 12 | |||
|
Right Wing[3]
|
Louisiana Militia and Volunteers[11]
|
|
742 aggregate[b] |
1 | 15 | |
| U.S. Regular Army[15] |
|
2 | 1 | |||
| Gunners manning the artillery pieces | 154 aggregate[b] | 3 | 1 | |||
|
Reporting directly |
Reserves[17] |
|
||||
| West Bank[19]
|
|
0 |
0 |
0 |
References
Notes
- ^ a b c 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]
- ^ a b c d e f g h A grand total of 4,698 men on the Left Bank[5][6]
- ^ a b 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).
- ^ On the Left Bank 'the Seventh regular infantry, 430 strong... and 240 regulars of the Forty-fourth regiment'[16]
- ^ Patterson states this figure of 30 men, in his correspondence about the fighting on the Right Bank.[22] 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.
- ^ 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]
- ^ 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]
Citations
- ^ "William Claiborne". Retrieved Feb 8, 2017.
- ^ Latour 1999, pp. 242–243.
- ^ a b Greene, 2004, Chapter VI: Final Preparations
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c d Roosevelt, p.223
- ^ O'Connor 1817, p. 291.
- ^ Quisenberry, 1915, pp.134-135.
- ^ Smith, 1904, pp.187 to 195, Roll of Field and Staff, Slaughter's Regiment - APPENDIX II
- ^ Smith, 1904, pp.196 to 202, Roll of Field and Staff, Davis's Regiment - APPENDIX III
- ^ Smith, 1904, pp.179 to 186, Roll of Field and Staff, Mitchusson's Regiment - APPENDIX I
- ^ Pickles, p. 37.
- ^ Harrison, Thomas,THE BATTALIONS OF FREE MEN OF COLOR, page 113 of 198 within Troop Roster
- ^ Hinsdale, Glenn L., American troops in the January 8 battle, page 5 of 198 within Troop Roster
- ^ a b c d e Hughes & Brodine (ed), pp.1014-1015
- ^ Pickles, p. 37.
- ^ Roosevelt 1900, p. 225.
- ^ Pickles, p. 37.
- ^ Latour, pp.106-107
- ^ Pickles, p. 37.
- ^ Latour, pg.lxii
- ^ a b Latour, pp.120-121
- ^ Hughes & Brodine (ed), pp.1015-1019
Bibliography
- Greene, Jerome (September 5, 2004) [September 1985], "Chapter VI: Final Preparations", Jean Lafitte National Historic Park Historic Resource Study, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior,
[Buell says] The breakdown of Jackson's available strength on both sides of the Mississippi was as follows:
- Hughes, Christine F.; Brodine, Charles E., eds. (2023). The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History, Vol. 4. Washington: Naval Historical Center (GPO). ISBN 978-1-943604-36-4.
- Latour, Arsène Lacarrière (1999) [1816], Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814–15, with an Atlas, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, ISBN 0-8130-1675-4, OCLC 40119875
- O'Connor, Thomas (1817). An impartial and correct history of the war between the United States of America, and Great Britain. New York: John Low.
- Pickles, Tim (1994). New Orleans 1815: Andrew Jackson Crushes the British. Campaign 28. Osprey Publishing. p. 37. ISBN 978-1-85-532360-5.
- Quisenberry, Anderson Chenault (1969) [1915]. "X. The battle of New Orleans". Kentucky in the War of 1812. Genealogical Publishing Company. ISBN 0-8063-0282-8.
- Roosevelt, Theodore (1900). The Naval War of 1812. Vol. II. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press.
- Smith, Zachary F. (1904), The battle of New Orleans, Louisville, Kentucky: John P. Morton & Co.
- "Troop Roster" (PDF). January 8 battle of Chalmette. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. April 17, 2015 [1977]. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 8, 2024. Retrieved April 4, 2024.