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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

  • Advisers to General Jackson: Brigadier General Jean Joseph Amable Humbert,
    Governor William C. C. Claiborne
  • 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


     MG William Carroll

Carroll's Brigade


     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


     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


     Col George T. Ross

Louisiana Militia and Volunteers


     MG Jacques Villeré
     Col Pierre de la Ronde
     Jean Michel Fortier

  • 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)
U.S. Regular Army
  • 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


     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
  • 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
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